books.google.com - "Betting on Lives" uses the early history of life insurance to examine the economic, social, cultural and intellectual history of eighteenth-century England. Illegal almost everywhere else in Europe, life insurance in England was vigorously promoted in the three decades following the Glorious Revolution...http://books.google.com/books/about/Betting_on_Lives.html?id=3wq8AAAAIAAJ&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBetting on Lives