The Rothschilds and the Gold Rush. Benjamin Davidson and Heinrich Schliemann in California,1851-52
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- Author(s) Constable, Giles
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2015
- Pages 115pp; illus
- Publisher American Philosophical Society
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Deals with the Californian Gold Rush through the large scale transactions by a local partnership of Benjamin Davidson, Rothschilds' agent in San Francisco, and his agent at Sacramento, Heinrich Schliemann, via credits provided by the Rothschild banks in London and Europe. Deals with, inter alia, the operation of credits and remittances of gold to Europe for sale