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The House of Rothschild, Vol 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848

Niall Ferguson

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In his rich and nuanced portrait of the remarkable, elusive Rothschild family, Oxford scholar and bestselling author Niall Ferguson uncovers the secrets behind the family's phenomenal economic success. He reveals for the first time the details of the family's vast political network, which gave it access to and influence over many of the greatest statesmen of the age. And h ...more

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Jun 26, 2019 Jean rated it it was amazing

Shelves: audio-book, biography, business, european-history, history, non-fiction, antisemitism, economics

Niall Ferguson is a preeminent historian. This was his first book that helped build his reputation as a meticulous researcher. This is a scholarly work and is not for everyone.

The book is well written and meticulously researched. Ferguson has gone into depth and with great detail in telling the history of the Rothschild family. The author tells the story of a German Jewish family from the ghettoes who rose over many generations to be the most powerful and secretive family held financial institut ...more

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Mar 30, 2010 W. Littlejohn rated it really liked it

What if someone wrote a book claiming that the development of modern capitalism was the product of a secretive and inbred family of Jews, for half a century the wealthiest men alive, the bankers to every major European monarch, who gained their fortune as war profiteers in the age of Napoloeon and went on to control the international bond market and the currency exchanges of Europe, who pulled the strings of diplomacy and empire throughout the Hundred Years’ Peace when Europe ruled the world, a What if someone wrote a book claiming that the development of modern capitalism was the product of a secretive and inbred family of Jews, for half a century the wealthiest men alive, the bankers to every major European monarch, who gained their fortune as war profiteers in the age of Napoloeon and went on to control the international bond market and the currency exchanges of Europe, who pulled the strings of diplomacy and empire throughout the Hundred Years’ Peace when Europe ruled the world, a family whose hundred tentacles still extend, secretive as ever, through the banks and financiers of the world, and who are behind some of the largest and most sinister corporations of the last century, such as Rio Tinto Mining Corporation and De Beers Diamonds? Ha! What kind of neo-Nazi nut case would whip up a conspiracy theory that grandiose and unlikely?!

But this story (which could also be told as a perfect rags-to-riches fairy tale) is actually true, and it is told in compelling and exhaustive detail by Niall Ferguson in this volume and its sequel.

This was Ferguson's first great tour-de-force as a historian, and as such, it is much more detailed and analytical than the grand sweeping narratives of Empire and the Ascent of Money--no, it was the hard work of a book like this that earned Ferguson the right to write books like that. So this book is not for the faint of heart. It is about 500 pages of small type, but more importantly, it is laden down with an immense weight of detailed facts, quotations, statistics, and above all, financial jargon--nineteenth-century financial jargon at that. Nevertheless, I highly recommend it, though it is best digested in small chunks over several months, I should think--the way I digested it.

It's interesting to note that even here, in this most "objective" of histories, we can see Ferguson adopting the role of amoral apologist for Mammon that he develops on such a grand scale in his later works. He is at pains to disprove the most sinister myths about the Rothschilds, and paint them (as much as possible) as philanthropic progressives, all the while telling a narrative of bribery, intrigue, price-fixing, double-dealing, and boundless greed--all of which, in the telling, looks fairly bland and run-of-the-mill, because it is simply how we have come to assume banking works, but all of which was deeply shocking to many of their contemporaries.

A full review/retelling of the story will appear in the January 2011 issue of Fermentations magazine. ...more

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Mar 04, 2012 Rob rated it did not like it

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I read this book before Niall Ferguson became the favourite historian of Neoliberalism. This was a deadly boring book. His style was 'then he did that and then did the other etc etc'. It seemingly avoided all but a cursory examination of the family's Jewishness and what it meant to be a Jewish financier in Central Europe.
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Sep 03, 2009 Straker rated it did not like it

Shelves: finance, non-fiction, history

Tedious in the extreme. Should come packaged with a machete, because you have to hack your way through it.

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Aug 02, 2016 Stevenglinert rated it really liked it

If you, like me, groan loudly at shows and cultural items that glorify European nobility, from Pierre in War and Peace to all the Victorian movies/shows where every male actor looks like Eddie Redmayne, then the story of Rothschilds will be deeply satisfying. Niall Ferguson is a fantastic writer, but if I may riff for a second...

Nathaniel Rothschild is Kanye West. To the European nobles he did business with: He knows you don't like him, he sees you cringing at his Jewishness, but he also knows h If you, like me, groan loudly at shows and cultural items that glorify European nobility, from Pierre in War and Peace to all the Victorian movies/shows where every male actor looks like Eddie Redmayne, then the story of Rothschilds will be deeply satisfying. Niall Ferguson is a fantastic writer, but if I may riff for a second...

Nathaniel Rothschild is Kanye West. To the European nobles he did business with: He knows you don't like him, he sees you cringing at his Jewishness, but he also knows he runs the show, and he's going to make damn sure you know it. You get giddy reading the contempt he has for the average European aristocrat. It's delightfully similar to the joy we all take, and I'm sure Kanye takes, in making a fool out of Taylor Swift.

A decorated Prussian aristocrat comes to Nathaniel Rothschild. Nathaniel doesn't look up from his desk, "take a seat". The Prussian feels offended, "Do you know the eminence to which you are speaking?" Nathaniel, still not looking up, "Fine, take two seats."

Lines like "When a Jew lends to a noble, he owns that noble" sound conspiratorial now, but he is not wrong in seeing himself as the winner of the Napoleonic Wars. And you have to love that he would drunkenly horrify/entertain his guests later in life by putting on all the courtly uniforms of the courts that had knighted him. He trolls with the best.

Nathaniel and his brothers leave the Frankfurt ghetto as the French Revolution is getting underway. Nathaniel goes to London and proceeds to revolutionize financial markets and through daring, cunning, risk-taking, mathematical acumen, and pure viciousness dominate financial markets. The Rothschilds understand markets on a level which is distinctly modern. Concepts that we consider basic, like hedging and arbitrage, they invent to dominate the financial landscape of the Napoleonic Wars and the 19th century. It's a beautiful thing.

We love Hamilton, but perhaps we're not far enough away from the financial crisis to truly love Nathaniel Rothschild like we love Hamilton, but unlike the white Hamilton, Nathaniel is a continuous outcast Jew.

Heinrich Heine says it well: "I see in Rothschild one of the greatest revolutionaries who have founded modern democracy. Richelieu, Robespierre, and Rothschild are Europe's most fearful levellers...Rothschild destroyed the predominance of land, by raising the system of state bonds to supreme power." ...more

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Feb 14, 2013 Lex Alexander rated it it was amazing

An amazing account of how one family defied social stigmas and broke through the proverbial glass ceiling to become the premiere banking family of the world. Ferguson does a masterful job of explaining in excruciating detail just how this small tight knit family came to conquer the world financially.

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Sep 14, 2009 Mike rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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The House of Rothschild is a hefty tome covering 200 years and several generations of this family. It is published in two volumes, each about 650 pages long in small (?6 point?) type. In hard cover, each one qualifies as a kitten crusher; together they could harm a small pony.

Since they were published as a set, I will be writing a common review.

The author is Niall Ferguson an unrepentant booster of monetary systems and capitalism. You may remember him from the PBS series, “The Ascent of Money: A ...more

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Jun 11, 2014 Frank Stein rated it really liked it

This is a sprawling, fascinating, deep and finally difficult work of history, one that offers an original glance at the 19th century through the eyes of the family that financed much of it.

Ferguson shows convincingly how a family of Frankfurt antique dealers ascended the hierarchy of finance during the Napoleanic wars to become the richest individuals in history. Thanks to Mayer Amschel's five sons scattered across Europe, in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Naples and Vienna, and their family creed of
This is a sprawling, fascinating, deep and finally difficult work of history, one that offers an original glance at the 19th century through the eyes of the family that financed much of it.

Ferguson shows convincingly how a family of Frankfurt antique dealers ascended the hierarchy of finance during the Napoleanic wars to become the richest individuals in history. Thanks to Mayer Amschel's five sons scattered across Europe, in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Naples and Vienna, and their family creed of "Concordia," the Rothshcilds were able to trade bills, bullion, and subsidies across the continent for both the French, and, more importantly, the allies, who needed funds for their scattered campaigns. In the post-bellum period, alliances with such nabobs as the British Treasury member John Charles Herries and infamous reactionary Austrian diplomat Prince Metternich, both of whom the Rothschild offered rich personal subventions, allowed them to dominate the world of government bonds, and thus dictate many government policies, especially those regarding war and peace.

While many contemporaries noted the irony of Jewish bankers being the main prop for the the "Holy Alliance" of Catholic monarchies in the East, and the Protestant ones in the West, Ferguson shows that in fact if the Rothschild's had a bias towards anything it was towards peace, an expensive and armed peace they preferred, but peace nonetheless. They often also used their clout to demand increased rights for Jews and sometimes even more parliamentry democracy, which they thought stabilized investments. Perhaps the best part of the book is showing the Rothschild's participation in the tangled webs of international diplomacy at the time, where ideologies were attached to regimes and countries like in few later periods. Liberals tended to support French and Belgian claims in any circumstances, while reactionaries supported Austria and Prussia, and domestic politics often involved playing off different nations as much as different policies. On the whole, the Rothschild worked across these ideological lines, but they turned more Whig and liberal as time went on.

Of course Ferguson demolishes many of the myths that have surrounded the Rothschilds since their ascent, much of which emerged from scurrilous anti-Semitic tracts (for instance, Nathan Rothschild didn't make his fortune buying bonds when he heard first the information about Waterloo, in fact, he had large contracts out to supply the army that peace, at least at this point, threatened to cancel). Still, Ferguson wonderfully explains how the family's Jewish identify helped them succeed and at the same time kept them out of the top realms of power. Still, their desire for a removal from the Christian world often lead to a stunning amount of inbreeding in the third and later generations of the family that one cannot help but be baffled at.

The main problem with the book is that it tries to cover too much, too fast, throwing reams of facts and anecdotes at the reader with little context and less development of character. Still, this research, bolstered by some of the first readings of the Rothschild "Judendeutch" correspondence, is an unparalleled look at some of the most important people in financial and world history. ...more

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Nov 30, 2018 jrendocrine rated it liked it

Shelves: couldn-t-finish

Always wanted to know more about the Rothschilds, and it was a Kindle deal. But I give up (30%) -

This is a HIGHLY scholarly book - this is not for the causal reader who wants to learn a little about the Rothschilds. It is full on financial detail. The research is impressive, and I would think that people working on their pHDs in finance and economics would do well to read this. The part I read gave intense detail - how much was spent here, how much lent there, who what where in the lending, Nat ...more

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Apr 17, 2012 Marks54 rated it really liked it

This is the first volume of Ferguson's two volume history of the Rothschild family. For some reason, I did not post this when I posted an entry for the second volume. I loved the book, for reasons I mentioned for volume 2. I have read several of his books and for me, this two volume set is the best and well worth the effort to read. ...more

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Mar 05, 2013 Susan rated it liked it · review of another edition

I was interested to learn about the beginnings and financial emergence of the Rothschilds--The Red Shield dynasty. I wasn't so interested in the day-to-day trifles; there was too much. I went on to other books to learn more about the workings of finance and the European banking dynasties. Niall Ferguson is an expert on economy, and I have learned a lot from him in the past. ...more

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Mar 08, 2013 Nick Harriss rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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A fascinating review on the history of the Rothschild family. Rather slow in places, especially in the middle, but a worthwhile read. It still doesn't quite answer how the family managed to accumulate so much capital so quickly in the first 20 years of the 19th century, but authoritative and lacking in the conspiracy theories often surrounding the family. ...more

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Jun 24, 2019 Chris Davidge rated it liked it

70% of the book was awesome, but it dragged on at the end and I was definitely excited to have it finished. Overall, I would recommend this book if you've ever wondered about the empire built by the Rothschild's and the barriers that they overcame. ...more

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Jan 29, 2013 Tom rated it liked it

Who knew the Rothschild's had such an impact on the modern era? Niall Ferguson is perhaps the best historical author going. ...more

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May 27, 2014 Czarny Pies rated it really liked it

Shelves: european-history

This is probably the best book of Niall Ferguson who much prefers giving us his opinion to doing real research. The House of Rothschild is a fascinating study of a brilliant family that made a great contribution to history and the arts.

Ferguson gives us a fascinating view of the Rothschilds as they rise to riches and come to hold power. The Rothschilds used their influence to discourage war and to promote peace. As a consequence the pro-war parties in several countries launched propaganda campai This is probably the best book of Niall Ferguson who much prefers giving us his opinion to doing real research. The House of Rothschild is a fascinating study of a brilliant family that made a great contribution to history and the arts.

Ferguson gives us a fascinating view of the Rothschilds as they rise to riches and come to hold power. The Rothschilds used their influence to discourage war and to promote peace. As a consequence the pro-war parties in several countries launched propaganda campaigns about the undue influence of Jewish bankers in European politics. Niall Ferguson argues quite rightly that we would all be better off if Jewish Bankers did in fact control our politics as war costs lives, destroys property and creates poverty. Jewish Bankers in contrast want people to live long, amass property and become rich.

Ferguson explains that the Rothschilds refused to finance wars for two reasons. The first was that the loser of the war inevitably defaulted on its loans. The second was that the winner was so weakened by the fight that it defaulted half the time. Thus in an era when governments depended on banks for financing, the opinions of the Rothschilds were of considerable importance. The Rothschilds were a key part of the system that prevented war in Europe for 100 years between Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo and WWI.

Unfortunately, in the twentieth century European governments discovered income tax which allowed them to finance total wars and to ignore the wishes of the bankers. As result, the world experienced the two most destructive wars ever. Ferguson's argument is irrestible to anyone who has taken a university level course in economics or finance. I heartily recommend this book.

Ferguson also praises the Rothschilds for the intelligent and generous support that they gave to many artists, writers and poets. I believe that this aspect of the Rothschilds is generally known and so I make no further comments.

It is very sad that Ferguson stopped his history of the Rothschilds at the end of Volume I. We could have used more of his insight on the role that banking and this wonderful family played in European history. We could easily done without his opinion books and had more of his research based studies. ...more

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May 29, 2012 David Glad rated it it was amazing

Shelves: biographies, money-and-power

It was an amazing account of how merchants could set themselves up as bankers and establish banking houses across multiple countries, overcome the barriers just about all other Jews faced at the time (including restrictions on land ownership), and how family members could be "kept in line."

The family in some sense seemed to resemble gods to their fellow Jewish people, the family also heaped scorn on those who converted to Christianity for personal (and apparently shortsighted) gain, while simil ...more

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Sep 08, 2012 Jacob rated it liked it

These two books (volume 1 and 2) are way more detailed than i cared for. The gist of the Rothschild family is they made their fortune as one of the first lenders to european monarchies. When kings and princes wanted to finance their wars they turned to only a handful of private wealthy businessmen who had the funds to fill their need. The Rothschilds kept this in their family by rearing their children to learn the business and preventing those who married in from being involved. Eventually, by t ...more

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Apr 09, 2018 Zach Franz rated it it was ok

Shelves: gave-up-on

My chief reason for reading this book was the mystery surrounding the Rothschild dynasty. How could so little be known about so powerful a family? Niall Ferguson's book (just this first volume) certainly brings to light much of the available information we have on the Rothschilds. In fact, perhaps too much. I could only get halfway through this volume before throwing in the towel. I love to read about history, but Ferguson's writing style lacks the lure of a true narrative. It feels more like he ...more

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Aug 20, 2015 Amry Saja rated it liked it

Got to admit the devil lies in the details
Ferguson unfold all he could about the Family of rothschild in thorough way
I need to read it few times to absorb the message and thrill present of the books

I am afraid I got an hello effect of Fergusson other book that I loved most like The war of the world, Civilization.

But seems like the angle of Fergusson writing on these book its not exactly as I expeceted to be. Perhaps one's must read few books of same subject to get right angle of that we aim for ...more

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Apr 26, 2013 Andrew rated it liked it

some of it went a bit over my head, i'm afraid. I'm not that well versed in how the global banking system works in present day, let alone during the years covered by this book so some of the economic terms and financial products discussed were a little confusing to me. It's something I'd like to come back to after giving myself a better education on global finance/economy. ...more

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Jun 03, 2013 Chris rated it really liked it

Ferguson before he started writing nonsense about US politics.

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Oct 22, 2019 Adam Meek rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: history, non-fiction

informative, but dry as a bone.

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Apr 26, 2020 Chayong rated it liked it

Blinkist. Interesting. Looking for volume 2.

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Sep 22, 2015 Paul Mamani rated it it was amazing

Once upon a time, the Rothschilds were the wealthiest people on earth. In a thorough, diligent study, Ferguson (History/Oxford) completes his grand chronicle of the family that achieved history’s greatest economic hegemony (The House of Rothschild: Money’s Prophets, 1798-1848, 1998). Access to family records, hitherto unavailable, was facilitated by the English branch of the clan for this monumental authorized history. Ferguson makes their engrossing story an advanced seminar on the financial hi Once upon a time, the Rothschilds were the wealthiest people on earth. In a thorough, diligent study, Ferguson (History/Oxford) completes his grand chronicle of the family that achieved history’s greatest economic hegemony (The House of Rothschild: Money’s Prophets, 1798-1848, 1998). Access to family records, hitherto unavailable, was facilitated by the English branch of the clan for this monumental authorized history. Ferguson makes their engrossing story an advanced seminar on the financial history of Europe. In their heyday, the Rothschilds practiced geopolitics on a grand scale. They arranged the tricky reparations following the Franco-Prussian conflict, were active in securing Suez for Victoria, and managed assets for the Vatican. Contrary to myth, they were generally pacifists. (War tended to disrupt markets as well as harm people)., “While others unified nations, the Rothschilds were quietly unifying Europe,” using railroads as a binding factor. They demolished social barriers erected against Jews, hobnobbing easily with aristocracy and royalty, dealing with the likes of Disraeli and Gladstone, Lloyd George and Cecil Rhodes, Napoleon III and Bismarck. They ultimately joined the nobility themselves, purchasing castles and art in prodigious quantities. By the turn of the last century and the advent of the fifth generation, however, there was a decline in the Rothschilds’ fortunes. They had neglected to establish a foothold in the New World. Power was dispersed among numerous, often effete, cousins. There were marriages outside the endogamous family, eventually even outside its religion. Some partners cashed out to go their own ways. Virulent anti-Semitism and two world wars left the family enterprises no more important than those of their numerous competitors. The text has a pronounced British accent, as the English house is given primacy. (Values are uniformly reported in pounds sterling). Not History for Dummies. Copious financial accounts are combined with political and social narrative to produce a formidable chronicle. It is an extraordinary tale of the unique commercial underwriters of European history, told with impressive scholarship. ...more

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Mar 10, 2019 Robert Gebhardt rated it really liked it

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An extremely thorough look at a very interesting family I knew very little about.

This book has a lot of detail, which I enjoyed quite a bit. In addition to detail about the family it goes into depth about finance and economics, and the politics (and wars, etc.) going on in Europe during the first half of the 19th century, obviously as how they pertain to the Rothschild family.

This family is a real rags to riches family. Starting from unthinkable conditions (and restrictions) in Frankfurt's Jug ...more

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Feb 26, 2012 Tim rated it really liked it

This is fascinating but very dense. Not for every reader. If you love financial history though, it is great.

Ferguson charts the travails of the Rothschilds as they expand from humble merchants in Frankfurt to probably the richest and most influential bankers ever. He has an interesting analysis that supports his hypothesis that no one in this world has ever been richer compared to his fellow man than Nathan Rothschild.

By translating internal documentation from the original Judendeutsch he shows ...more

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Oct 14, 2017 David Ross rated it liked it

I don't work in finance so much of the nuts and bolts of the day to day Rothschild business is a bit over my head and made this a bit dry at times. That being said, I found the historical aspects of this book fascinating and especially given the rise of internet speculation about this particular family. I found it dispelled a lot of rumours through a surprisingly honest account of this Rothschild sanctioned book. The author has great access to their archives so it's hardly impartial and you woul ...more

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Feb 05, 2016 Dr.J.G. added it

The official description speaks of Niall Ferguson, an Oxford scholar, writing with exhaustive research about

"a dynasty that rose from the confines of the Frankfurt ghetto and later used its influence to assist oppressed Jews throughout Europe"

in this work, which contrasts markedly with the posts in a group of this name on the site. The book ought to be as interesting to read as the group posts (only one member before me, and since I could not invite anyone that is probably the status quo even ...more

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Jul 08, 2019 Ivan Kreimer rated it liked it

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An interesting book about the story of one of the world's most important families ever to exist. Having changed the 19th century like no other family — not even the Napoleons — the book promised a lot of insights on the real story of the Rothschild. Unfortunately, the author made the entire story quite boring and dull.

At moments, I didn't know what he meant by many of the economic concepts discussed, and to be honest, it bored me a lot. It'd have been great if the author had added more interest ...more

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May 08, 2009 Danny rated it it was amazing

Apparently the definitive "official" book about this family. Niall had full support of the family...except that he didn't have access to all the records after 1911...interesting.

Thus far, at page 14 of this very dense book, it's been an entirely positive portrayal. ...more

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