The World's Banker: History of the House of Rothschild: Niall Ferguson 1st edn

Description: The World's Banker - The History of the House of RothschildBy Niall FergusonA massive, illustrated biography: 1310 pages Hardcover, very good condition. Slight wear to the dustjacket.7" x 10" (about 19 cm x 25 cm) 1310 pages 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 Napoleonic wars, a mythology has grown up around the family and it's firms. It is no exaggeration to say that the Rothschilds became 1 of the living legends of the 19th century: the personification of a new era in which money determined status and power, an era in which 5 Jewish brothers born into the wretchedness of the Frankfurt 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. SHIPPING NOTES: USA and Canada only Please check shipping cost before bidding! I don't set the postal rates! This is a heavy set, weighing about 3 kg/6.5 lb for shipping Canada: Canada Post Expedited Parcel. Sorry, Canada Post abolished its special book/media rate many years ago. Free local pickup available for buyers in the Montreal area USA: FedEx International. Note that this is international shipping, so that USPS Media Mail rates do not apply.

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Location: Kirkland, Quebec

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