- Hardcover: 700 pages
- Publisher: W&N; First Edition edition (26 Oct 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0297815393
- ISBN-13: 978-0297815396
- Product Dimensions: 25.2 x 18 x 6.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 757,943 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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This is a book that provides a real insight into the workings, both discrete and indiscrete, of the world financial markets. Don't be too surprised at aspects, and moralities, that you had only guessed at before. This book lays them bare!
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Ferguson has produced a work of great scholarship. A condensed version would be a fascinating read for those less interested in detailed financial history and more in the social and political aspects. For the rest of us, the time taken for careful reading of every word is repaid many times over in fascination with the intricacies of the world of the Rothschilds. The author admits that recent years are somewhat of a summary rather than detailed research which must be for another writer. Someone please step forward!
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