Nathan Mayer Rothschild and the Creation of a Dynasty by Herb... - 9780804751650

Nathan Mayer Rothschild and the Creation of a DynastyThe Critical Years 1806-1816\nAuthor(s): Herbert H. Kaplan\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804751650, 978-0804751650\nSynopsis\nThis groundbreaking history explains how Nathan Mayer Rothschild rose from comparatively humble circumstances to become the founder of an extraordinary banking and financial empirean 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 .