1.The Tontine: Here, There, and Everywhere
2.The Origins and Early Examples of the Tontine: 1602-1699
3.Public Tontines in the Eighteenth Century
4.Private Tontines in Great Britain and Ireland, Europe, and North America: 1750-1900
5.The Rise and Fall of Tontine Life Insurance in the United States, 1867-1906
6.The Long Shadow of the Tontine
Index
Biography
Andrew McDiarmid earned his PhD from the University of Dundee and attended Yale University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. His research focuses on financial history from the early modern period to the twentieth century, with his first monograph on the subject of the Scottish Financial Revolution released in 2023. He is currently the SFI/IRC pathways fellow at University College Dublin, where he is undertaking a major project exploring the history of tontines between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries.
