Shadow of a Great Man
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- Author(s) Rothschild, Lord
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1982
- Pages 62pp; illus
- Publisher The firm
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Short biography of the founder of the English Rothschild business, Nathan M Rothschild, 1777-1836, written by his ancestor, Lord Rothschild. Notably focuses on his financings of the British government during the latter part of the European Wars to 1815, especially in 1815, and Rothschilds support of the Bank of England during the 1825 financial crisis. Reprinted in Lord Rothschild, Random Variables, 1984, pp105-53