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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Constable, Giles (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society, [2015]
Series:	Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ; v. 105, pt. 4.
Subjects:	California > Gold discoveries. Gold mines and mining > California > History > 19th century. Business enterprises > California > San Francisco > History > 19th century. Davidson, Benjamin. Schliemann, Heinrich, > 1822-1890. Rothschild family. Bankers > England > London > History > 19th century. Banks and banking > England > London > History > 19th century. Bankers. Banks and banking. Business enterprises. Gold mines and mining. California. California > San Francisco. England > London. 1800 - 1899 History.

Table of Contents:

Introduction by Malcolm Rohrbough
Arriving in California
Davidson in San Francisco (1849-1852)
Schliemann in Sacramento (1851-1852)
Parting of the ways.