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This second volume of Niall Ferguson's acclaimed, landmark history of the legendary Rothschild banking dynasty concludes his myth-breaking portrait of one of the most powerful and fascinating families of modern times. With all the depth, clarity and drama with which he traced the Rothschild's ascent, Ferguson shows how their powerâŚ
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Ferguson shows us a neural network of another sort: the web of offshore finance and international co-investment that culminated in the First World Warânot at Sarajevo but in the Middle East, where Great Britain and Germany faced off over railroad access to Britainâs prize possession, India. Wrapped in the thoroughly engaging family history of the far-flung Rothschilds and how they knit themselves together in an empire of their own, Ferguson embeds an equally enthralling history of what he calls âGlobalization I,â the 19th-century race to connect the empires established in the preceding age of exploration with their European centers ofâŚ
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