Trading Houses & Industrial Giants · Chartered companies & banks
The Rothschilds
From a Frankfurt ghetto to the most powerful bank of the 19th century: five brothers in five capitals, a private network for moving money and information across borders, financing for Britain against Napoleon, and why the family model eventually lost to joint-stock banks.
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Key idea
Prereqs: VOC; the British East India Company. Next: J.P. Morgan & the House of Morgan. Sources: Niall Ferguson's *The House of Rothschild* (2 vols) and the Rothschild Archive.Next: 1. The founder and the five arrows