"Most interesting and valuable, should be read by everyone...the Rothschilds represent one of the most important factors of European development in the 19th century." —The Star (New York).
In 1887, author John Reeves published "The Rothschilds: the Financial Rulers of Nations," an interesting account of the celebrated Jewish family of bankers of this name from its first humble beginnings in the early days of Mayer Amschel Rothschild, its first financier, until the 1880s.
Reeves chose for himself a particularly interesting theme, for we can hardly imagine one more interesting than the history of a family which, within the comparatively short space of a century raised itself from a position of obscurity to one of transcendent wealth and influence.
Mr. Reeves does not attempt to trace the history of the Rothschild family further back than 1743, the year of the birth of Mayer Amschel, the son of Amschel Moses Rothschild. Mayer Amschel, having acquired experience in a banking-house in Hanover, settled definitively at Frankfort about the for 1770 and gradually built up a very important business. High was his character for integrity that he was entrusted in the course of the subsequent troublous times with a large sum of money by the Landgrave of Hesse.
Business grew enormously, and the banking-house presently had large and confidential dealings with the English Government in connexion with the payment of foreign subsidies and with the conveyance of treasure to Spain and various other parts.
Major Amschel died in 1812, leaving behind him a high reputation or benevolence and rectitude, and, in accordance with his dying instructions, four of his sons established houses at, respectively, Venice, London, Paris, and Naples, thus, with the parent house at Frankfort, occupying five leading European capitals.
It was in 1812 that the firm began to assume cosmopolitan proportions, owing to the great financial ability of Nathan, the head of the London branch. Who can gauge the importance of such a firm as helping to centre in London the money business of the world?
The author is enthusiastic in praise of the benevolence of the Rothschilds, and he gives many anecdotes illustrating their various characters.
The fortunes of the Rothschilds, no less than the fate of Europe, may be said to have been decided on the field of Waterloo. The vast undertakings in which the house has since been engaged, down to the administration of the milliards of the war indemnity paid by France to Germany, are narrated with interesting detail, interspersed with many piquant anecdotes of the individual members of the family concerned in the transactions. It is a most interesting volume.
In describing the Rothschilds' power, Reeves writes:
"Little could Mayer Amschel have anticipated that the humble shop was destined to ultimately grow into one of the largest and most renowned banking firms of the world, and that his sons would in after years come to exercise such an unbounded sway that the peace of nations would depend upon their nod; that the powerful control they exercised on the European money markets would enable them to pose as the arbiters of peace and war, since they could at their pleasure withhold or furnish the pecuniary means required to carry on a campaign. But this, incredible as it may seem, was what their vast influence, combined with their enormous wealth and unlimited credit, enabled them to do, for no firms existed strong enough to oppose them for any length of time, or rash enough to take up a business which the Rothschilds had refused.
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In 1887, author John Reeves published "The Rothschilds: the Financial Rulers of Nations," an interesting account of the celebrated Jewish family of bankers of this name from its first humble beginnings in the early days of Mayer Amschel Rothschild, its first financier, until the 1880s.
Reeves chose for himself a particularly interesting theme, for we can hardly imagine one more interesting than the history of a family which, within the comparatively short space of a century raised itself from a position of obscurity to one of transcendent wealth and influence.
Mr. Reeves does not attempt to trace the history of the Rothschild family further back than 1743, the year of the birth of Mayer Amschel, the son of Amschel Moses Rothschild. Mayer Amschel, having acquired experience in a banking-house in Hanover, settled definitively at Frankfort about the for 1770 and gradually built up a very important business. High was his character for integrity that he was entrusted in the course of the subsequent troublous times with a large sum of money by the Landgrave of Hesse.
Business grew enormously, and the banking-house presently had large and confidential dealings with the English Government in connexion with the payment of foreign subsidies and with the conveyance of treasure to Spain and various other parts.
Major Amschel died in 1812, leaving behind him a high reputation or benevolence and rectitude, and, in accordance with his dying instructions, four of his sons established houses at, respectively, Venice, London, Paris, and Naples, thus, with the parent house at Frankfort, occupying five leading European capitals.
It was in 1812 that the firm began to assume cosmopolitan proportions, owing to the great financial ability of Nathan, the head of the London branch. Who can gauge the importance of such a firm as helping to centre in London the money business of the world?
The author is enthusiastic in praise of the benevolence of the Rothschilds, and he gives many anecdotes illustrating their various characters.
The fortunes of the Rothschilds, no less than the fate of Europe, may be said to have been decided on the field of Waterloo. The vast undertakings in which the house has since been engaged, down to the administration of the milliards of the war indemnity paid by France to Germany, are narrated with interesting detail, interspersed with many piquant anecdotes of the individual members of the family concerned in the transactions. It is a most interesting volume.
In describing the Rothschilds' power, Reeves writes:
"Little could Mayer Amschel have anticipated that the humble shop was destined to ultimately grow into one of the largest and most renowned banking firms of the world, and that his sons would in after years come to exercise such an unbounded sway that the peace of nations would depend upon their nod; that the powerful control they exercised on the European money markets would enable them to pose as the arbiters of peace and war, since they could at their pleasure withhold or furnish the pecuniary means required to carry on a campaign. But this, incredible as it may seem, was what their vast influence, combined with their enormous wealth and unlimited credit, enabled them to do, for no firms existed strong enough to oppose them for any length of time, or rash enough to take up a business which the Rothschilds had refused.
The Rothschilds: the Financial Rulers of Nations
"Most interesting and valuable, should be read by everyone...the Rothschilds represent one of the most important factors of European development in the 19th century." —The Star (New York).
In 1887, author John Reeves published "The Rothschilds: the Financial Rulers of Nations," an interesting account of the celebrated Jewish family of bankers of this name from its first humble beginnings in the early days of Mayer Amschel Rothschild, its first financier, until the 1880s.
Reeves chose for himself a particularly interesting theme, for we can hardly imagine one more interesting than the history of a family which, within the comparatively short space of a century raised itself from a position of obscurity to one of transcendent wealth and influence.
Mr. Reeves does not attempt to trace the history of the Rothschild family further back than 1743, the year of the birth of Mayer Amschel, the son of Amschel Moses Rothschild. Mayer Amschel, having acquired experience in a banking-house in Hanover, settled definitively at Frankfort about the for 1770 and gradually built up a very important business. High was his character for integrity that he was entrusted in the course of the subsequent troublous times with a large sum of money by the Landgrave of Hesse.
Business grew enormously, and the banking-house presently had large and confidential dealings with the English Government in connexion with the payment of foreign subsidies and with the conveyance of treasure to Spain and various other parts.
Major Amschel died in 1812, leaving behind him a high reputation or benevolence and rectitude, and, in accordance with his dying instructions, four of his sons established houses at, respectively, Venice, London, Paris, and Naples, thus, with the parent house at Frankfort, occupying five leading European capitals.
It was in 1812 that the firm began to assume cosmopolitan proportions, owing to the great financial ability of Nathan, the head of the London branch. Who can gauge the importance of such a firm as helping to centre in London the money business of the world?
The author is enthusiastic in praise of the benevolence of the Rothschilds, and he gives many anecdotes illustrating their various characters.
The fortunes of the Rothschilds, no less than the fate of Europe, may be said to have been decided on the field of Waterloo. The vast undertakings in which the house has since been engaged, down to the administration of the milliards of the war indemnity paid by France to Germany, are narrated with interesting detail, interspersed with many piquant anecdotes of the individual members of the family concerned in the transactions. It is a most interesting volume.
In describing the Rothschilds' power, Reeves writes:
"Little could Mayer Amschel have anticipated that the humble shop was destined to ultimately grow into one of the largest and most renowned banking firms of the world, and that his sons would in after years come to exercise such an unbounded sway that the peace of nations would depend upon their nod; that the powerful control they exercised on the European money markets would enable them to pose as the arbiters of peace and war, since they could at their pleasure withhold or furnish the pecuniary means required to carry on a campaign. But this, incredible as it may seem, was what their vast influence, combined with their enormous wealth and unlimited credit, enabled them to do, for no firms existed strong enough to oppose them for any length of time, or rash enough to take up a business which the Rothschilds had refused.
In 1887, author John Reeves published "The Rothschilds: the Financial Rulers of Nations," an interesting account of the celebrated Jewish family of bankers of this name from its first humble beginnings in the early days of Mayer Amschel Rothschild, its first financier, until the 1880s.
Reeves chose for himself a particularly interesting theme, for we can hardly imagine one more interesting than the history of a family which, within the comparatively short space of a century raised itself from a position of obscurity to one of transcendent wealth and influence.
Mr. Reeves does not attempt to trace the history of the Rothschild family further back than 1743, the year of the birth of Mayer Amschel, the son of Amschel Moses Rothschild. Mayer Amschel, having acquired experience in a banking-house in Hanover, settled definitively at Frankfort about the for 1770 and gradually built up a very important business. High was his character for integrity that he was entrusted in the course of the subsequent troublous times with a large sum of money by the Landgrave of Hesse.
Business grew enormously, and the banking-house presently had large and confidential dealings with the English Government in connexion with the payment of foreign subsidies and with the conveyance of treasure to Spain and various other parts.
Major Amschel died in 1812, leaving behind him a high reputation or benevolence and rectitude, and, in accordance with his dying instructions, four of his sons established houses at, respectively, Venice, London, Paris, and Naples, thus, with the parent house at Frankfort, occupying five leading European capitals.
It was in 1812 that the firm began to assume cosmopolitan proportions, owing to the great financial ability of Nathan, the head of the London branch. Who can gauge the importance of such a firm as helping to centre in London the money business of the world?
The author is enthusiastic in praise of the benevolence of the Rothschilds, and he gives many anecdotes illustrating their various characters.
The fortunes of the Rothschilds, no less than the fate of Europe, may be said to have been decided on the field of Waterloo. The vast undertakings in which the house has since been engaged, down to the administration of the milliards of the war indemnity paid by France to Germany, are narrated with interesting detail, interspersed with many piquant anecdotes of the individual members of the family concerned in the transactions. It is a most interesting volume.
In describing the Rothschilds' power, Reeves writes:
"Little could Mayer Amschel have anticipated that the humble shop was destined to ultimately grow into one of the largest and most renowned banking firms of the world, and that his sons would in after years come to exercise such an unbounded sway that the peace of nations would depend upon their nod; that the powerful control they exercised on the European money markets would enable them to pose as the arbiters of peace and war, since they could at their pleasure withhold or furnish the pecuniary means required to carry on a campaign. But this, incredible as it may seem, was what their vast influence, combined with their enormous wealth and unlimited credit, enabled them to do, for no firms existed strong enough to oppose them for any length of time, or rash enough to take up a business which the Rothschilds had refused.
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| Publisher: | Far West Travel Adventure |
| Publication date: | 08/11/2022 |
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