Nathan Mayer Rothschild and the Creation of a Dynasty: The Critical Years 1806-1816 - Softcover

Kaplan, Herbert H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804773610 ISBN 13: 9780804773614

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2010

Synopsis

This groundbreaking history explains how Nathan Mayer Rothschild rose from comparatively humble circumstances to become the founder of an extraordinary banking and financial empire―an empire that remained preeminent in Europe for more than a century. The book focuses on the critical years of Great Britain’s war against Napoleon, when Rothschild became in effect Britain’s banker and paymaster on the Continent, contributing to Wellington’s defeat of Napoleon and consolidating the basis of the Rothschild financial dynasty. Although the basic outline of Rothschild’s remarkable rise in the world of European high finance is well known, the details of how this actually took place, at the transaction-by-transaction level, have never before been studied. On the basis of painstaking archival examination of all of Rothschild’s extant financial records, Kaplan is able to explain for the first time exactly how this transformation occurred.

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About the Author

Herbert H. Kaplan is Professor Emeritus of History at Indiana University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804773610
• ISBN 13: 9780804773614
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224