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Table of Contents PENGUIN BOOKS Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Acknowledgements PREFACE I - Uncles and Nephews ONE - Charlotte’s Dream (1849-1858) TWO - The Era of Mobility (1849-1858) THREE - Nationalism and the Multinational (1859-1863) FOUR - Blood and Silver (1863-1867) FIVE - Bonds and Iron (1867-1870) II - Cousins SIX - Reich, Republic, Rentes (1870-1873) SEVEN - “The Caucasian Royal Family” EIGHT - Jewish Questions NINE - “On the Side of Imperialism” (1874-1885) TEN - Party Politics ELEVEN - The Risks and Returns of Empire (1885-1902) TWELVE - Finances and Alliances (1885-1906) THIRTEEN - The Military-Financial Complex (1906-1914) III - Descendants FOURTEEN - Deluges (1915-1945) EPILOGUE APPENDIX 1 - Exchange Rates APPENDIX 2 - Selected Financial Statistics NOTES INDEX PENGUIN BOOKS HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD Born in Glasgow in 1964, Niall Ferguson is Fellow and Tutor of Modern History at Jesus College, Oxford, as well as a political commentator and author. His previous publications include The House of Rothschild: Money’s Prophets, 1798-1848, now a Penguin paperback, The Pity of War, and the bestselling book Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals. PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. Penguin Group (Canada), 10 Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4V 3B2 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi - 110 017, India Penguin Group (NZ), cnr Airborne and Rosedale Roads, Albany, Auckland, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Putnam Inc. 1999 Published in Penguin Books 2000 10 Copyright © Niall Ferguson, 1998 All rights reserved This is the second of two volumes of The House of Rothschild. In Great Britain The House of Rothschild was published as one volume by Weidenfeld & Nicolson under the title The World’s Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild. THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HAS CATALOGED eISBN : 978-1-101-15357-4 1. Rothschild family. 2. Bankers—Europe biography. 3. Business people— Europe biography. 4. Europe—Politics and government. I. Title. HG1552.R8F-41868 332.1’092’2—dc21 http://us.penguingroup.com
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