ISBN: 9780670868575 - founder: a portrait of the first rothschild and his time (16 risultati)

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Condizione: Good. First Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Tells the story of a man who began the European banking empire as he struggled for success during the eighteenth century amid the final remnants of the Holy Roman empire Piece(s) of the spine missing. Former library book. Mylar protector included. Solid binding. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Tells the story of a man who began the European banking empire as he struggled for success during the eighteenth century amid the final remnants of the Holy Roman empire Former library book. Mylar protector included. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good-. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good-. Back of dust jacket is slightly rubbed, with a thin stain. Foxing on top and fore edge of book, with a bit of foxing also on endpages and pages 154 & 155 (due to business card inserted).

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. dj: as new. book: as new.

hardcover. Condizione: fine. near fine. First. Illustrated in black and white. 208 pages. 8vo, tan cloth-backed boards, d.w. New York: Viking, (1996). First edition. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper.

black & tan 1/2 cloth 8vo. dustwr. vf cond. clean. as new. looks unread. first printing. first edition. b&w frontis. 208p. maps. approximately. 49 illustrations. notes. bibliography. index. world history. biography. german history. european history. banking. finance. prussia. judengasse. germany. prince william of kassel. frankfort. napoleonic wars. carl buderus. karl dalberg. england. seligmann geisenheimer. heine. holy roman empire. anti~semiticism. emperor joseph ii. wilhelm ix, landgrave of hesse. seven years war. ~ "There will be no war in Europe," Guttle Rothschild, the widow of the subject of this book, wrote in 1847: "my sons will not provide the money for it." Her claim, though grand, was not entirely implausible. By mid~nineteenth century, the five Rothschild brothers~in London Frankfurt Paris, Vienna, and Naples~controlled the finances of Europe more closely than any family ever had; indeed, the Rothschild name was a byword for the power often accompanying great wealth. That enormous wealth and influence is even more remarkable given that it came into being so soon after the family burst out of the oppressive confines of the Jewish ghetto in Frankfurt. But the man who founded this dynasty, Guttle's husband and the father of the five sons, has always been an elusive figure, generally meriting a few pages in books concentrating on his offspring's achievements. Amos Elon's Founder provides in as complete a form as possible the life of this remarkable man. And what an extraordinary life his was! Meyer Amschel Rothschild was born in the Frankfurt ghetto in the mid~eighteenth century, in a city more restrictive in its treatment of Jews than any in Europe. Elon brilliantly depicts Meyer Amschel Rothschild's position there, and life on the almost unimaginably cramped Judengasse (the single street of the ghetto), where he lived his whole life~even after becoming one of the richest men in Germany. We read how he established his small trading and banking business, and forged an uneasy relationship (though one mutually profitable in different ways) with the financially obsessed Crown Prince Wilhelm of Kassel; how he pushed at and eventually broke through the restrictions that bound him and his family to the ghetto until he found himself essentially paying for the English war effort in the Peninsula in 1810. On a richly delineated canvas the emergence and secularization of a family and Western European Jewry is depicted. Founder is more than a short biography of an obviously extraordinary man. It is a portrait of Meyer Amschel Rothschild's times, of the condition of the Jews, of the state of Germany until it was overrun by the troops of Napoleonic France, which led to the collapse of the old order. It is about the threshold of modern times, when a world of aristocrats and gentlemen was permanently changed by a shrewd, dedicated, and. loyal financier and his family. We still cannot know him as well as we do his children; but at last, in this book, Meyer Amschel Rothschild himself emerges from the shadows of the Judengasse. …

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Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 208 pages. 9.25x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.