The Rothschilds and the Gold Rush

Download or read book The Rothschilds and the Gold Rush written by Giles Constable and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.