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The Fall of the House of Speyer: The Story of a Banking Dynasty
George W. Liebmann
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Hardcover. First history of influential international banking family. Num Pages: 256 pages, 46 bw integrated. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; KNST. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 166 x 27. Weight in Grams: 506.
The dramatic story of the last fifty years of the Speyer banking dynasty, a Jewish family of German descent, is surprisingly little known today, yet at the turn of the twentieth century, Speyer was the third largest investment banking firm in the United States, behind only Morgan and Kuhn, Loeb. It had branches in London, Frankfurt and New York, and the projects it financed included the Southern Pacific Railroad, the London Underground and the infrastructure of the new Cuban republic. Later, it was the first major banking firm to finance Germany's Weimar Republic, as well as providing League of Nations ... Read more
The dramatic story of the last fifty years of the Speyer banking dynasty, a Jewish family of German descent, is surprisingly little known today, yet at the turn of the twentieth century, Speyer was the third largest investment banking firm in the United States, behind only Morgan and Kuhn, Loeb. It had branches in London, Frankfurt and New York, and the projects it financed included the Southern Pacific Railroad, the London Underground and the infrastructure of the new Cuban republic. Later, it was the first major banking firm to finance Germany's Weimar Republic, as well as providing League of Nations ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784531768
SKU
V9781784531768
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About George W. Liebmann
George W. Liebmann is a lawyer and historian specialising in American and international history. His publications include Diplomacy Between the Wars: Five Diplomats and the Shaping of the Modern World and The Last American Diplomat: John D Negroponte and the Changing Face of US Diplomacy (both I.B.Tauris).
Reviews for The Fall of the House of Speyer: The Story of a Banking Dynasty
A solid work of financial and social history. They don't make bankers like this anymore - Wall Street Journal (01/27/2016)