The Rothschilds and the Gold Rush : Benjamin Davidson and Heinrich Schliemann in California, 1851-52 /
In this extraordinary monograph, based on a totally new array of sources, Giles Constable successfully chronicles the month-to-month, quarter-to-quarter cash transactions and other business between the Rothschild ownership and their agents in Sacramento, Benjamin Davidson and Heinrich Schliemann. In...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
American Philosophical Society,
[2015]
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| Series: | Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ;
v. 105, pt. 4. |
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| Summary: | In this extraordinary monograph, based on a totally new array of sources, Giles Constable successfully chronicles the month-to-month, quarter-to-quarter cash transactions and other business between the Rothschild ownership and their agents in Sacramento, Benjamin Davidson and Heinrich Schliemann. In doing this, the author succeeds in presenting a case study embracing both the macroeconomics of the California Gold Rush vis-à-vis international finance as well as the microeconomics of as close as one can come to day-to-day issues of credit, cash exchange, wealth transference, insurance, and risk as experienced between 1851 and 1852. -- Back cover. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 115 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781606180549 (alkaline paper) 1606180541 (alkaline paper) |
| ISSN: | 0065-9746 ; |