The Rothschilds and the Gold Rush

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.

Year

2015

Language

English

Series

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge -- volume 105, pa

Publisher

American Philosophical Society Press

Editions

1

Pages

115

ISBN

9781606180549

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