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

Kaplan, Herbert H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 080475165X ISBN 13: 9780804751650

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2005

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.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"The volume will be valuable not only for [Kaplan's] fellow Rothschild scholars but for anyone with an interest in the financial history of the Napoleonic period of in the development of nineteenth-century financial institutions."—The Journal of Economic History
"[This book] is worthwhile reading for those interested not just in the Rothschild dynasty but more generally in the operations of financial capitalism early in the nineteenth century. It presents an interesting portrait of the dynamics of entrepreneurship in the early nineteenth century and is a welcome addition to the literature on entrepreneurial activity and the economic history of capitalism in this period."—EH.Netx

About the Author:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 080475165X
• ISBN 13: 9780804751650
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224