Participant Info

First Name
Sharon
Last Name
Murphy
Affiliation
Providence College
Website URL
https://history.providence.edu/faculty-members/sharon-ann-murphy/
Keywords
19th & 20th c. American Social, Economic, and Business History, Financial History, History of Capitalism, History of Slavery
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Personal Info

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About Me
Recent Publications

Other People’s Money: How Banking Worked in the Early American Republic, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/other-peoples-money

Anglo-American Life Insurance, 1800-1914 (co-edited with Timothy Alborn), Pickering & Chatto, 2013 [paperback Routledge, 2016]. https://www.routledge.com/Anglo-American-Life-Insurance-18001914/Alborn-Murphy/p/book/9781848933521

Investing in Life: Insurance in Antebellum America, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010 [paperback 2013].  Winner of the 2012 Hagley Prize for the best book in business history. https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/investing-life

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Expertise by Geography
United States
Expertise by Chronology
19th century
Expertise by Topic
American Civil War, American Founding Era, Capitalism, Economic History, Slavery