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The World's Banker Niall Ferguson

The World's Banker By Niall Ferguson

The World's Banker by Niall Ferguson


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Ever since the Rothschild's spectacular rise to pre-eminence in European finance during the last years of the Napoleonic Wars, a mythology has grown up around the family and its firms. Using archival sources and contemporary and secondary literature, this book attempts to set the record straight.

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The World's Banker by Niall Ferguson

1st complete history of the Rothschild banking dynasty with full access to worldwide archives. Ever since the Rothschild's spectacular rise to preeminence in European finance during the last, turbulent years of the Napoleonicwars, a mythology has grown up around the family and it's firms. It is no exaggeration to say that the Rothschilds became 1 of theliving legends of the 19th century: the personfication of a new era in which money determined status and power, an era in which 5 Jewish brothers born into the wretchedness of the Frnakfurt Ghetto could rise by their own ingenuity to become ' the worlds bankers' - dominating the international financial markets, rubbing shoulders with the social elite, patronising the great artists and architects of the era and above all exerting a decisive, if veiled, influence over the world's monarchs and statesmen. Using a wealth of archival sources as well as a vast amount of little known contemporary and more recent secondary literature, Niall Ferguson's definitive study will finally hold the mirror of reality up to the face of myth. The result promises not only to do justice to the history of Rothschilds, but to revolutionise the history of the years of their rise and preeminence, and to reveal fascinating continuities from the 19th century to our own time.

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GOR008037747
9780297815396
0297815393
The World's Banker by Niall Ferguson
Used - Like New
Hardback
Orion Publishing Co
19981026
700
Winner of Wadsworth Prize 1999 Winner of Wadsworth Prize for Business History 1998 Short-listed for HH Wingate/Jewish Quarterly Literary Prize 1999 Short-listed for Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize: Non-fiction 1999
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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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