1873: The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World ~ SIGNED, DATED & LOCATED TO FULL TITLE PAGE FIRST/FIRST

Ahamed, Liaquat

ISBN 10: 1594204179 / ISBN 13: 9781594204173

Verlag: Penguin Press, 2026

Beschreibung

EXCEPTIONALLY SCARCE SIGNED! PULITZER PRIZE WINNER! FIRST EDITION, first printing STATED. Book is brand new and unread. Personally hand signed, dated (THE next day after publication, at his FIRST event in D.C.) and located directly to the full title page. NOT inscribed to anyone. NOT a tip in. NOT a bookplate. Dust jacket hand covered in protective archival grade Mylar for many worry free years of reading/collecting!

?A lively and compelling account . . . The cumulative effect is impressive. . . . Ahamed tells his story with an easy fluency and a high velocity.? ?The New York Times Book Review

?Superb . . . Ahamed thrillingly brings back to life a boom not unlike today's . . . In the process, he illuminates new ways of thinking about finance.? ?Financial Times

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by Literary Hub

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize?winning Lords of Finance, a magnificent and timely reckoning with the first truly global financial calamity and the famous banking family at the center of the whirlwind

Over the course of the 1850s and 1860s, during the first era of globalization, the world experienced an unprecedented economic boom. Fueling this expansion was an explosion in the global bond market, at the hub of which stood one family?the Rothschilds, arguably the wealthiest banking family in history. While the giant sums of capital provided through the bond market built the railroads, the century?s most transformative investments, the money raised also unleashed a frenzy of speculation, massive overinvestment, and wasteful borrowing by governments.

With excessive euphoria leading to disappointed expectations, in the early 1870s the bubble burst. Stock markets from Vienna to New York crashed, and dozens of railroads and many governments defaulted. Financial officials responded by blundering into a precipitous remaking of the global currency system?exacerbating the ensuing economic collapse and setting the stage for decades of a punitive deflation that sparked waves of anti-globalist populism. As Liaquat Ahamed shows us in this enthralling history, the crisis of 1873 was, among other things, a death blow to Reconstruction in the United States and the proximate cause of the Ottoman Empire?s slow death spiral. Ironically, though the Rothschilds had presciently kept a low profile during the bubble, when the deluge came, they were viciously scapegoated as part of a wider hatred directed at ?Jewish finance,? a strain of antisemitism that would come to full evil flower during the twentieth century.

1873 is a bird?s-eye reckoning with the full dimension of the crisis, from its buildup to its long aftermath. The Rothschilds and a cast of other witnesses give us the human perspective. And we have a brilliant financial historian?s grasp of the larger forces at play, resulting in a global narrative with thrilling explanatory power.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1781141558067

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: 1873: The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World ~ SIGNED, DATED & LOCATED TO FULL TITLE PAGE FIRST/FIRST
• Verlag: Penguin Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1594204179
• ISBN-13: 9781594204173
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1. Auflage
• Druck: 1. Druck
• Zustand: Neu
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Neu
• Abmessungen: 16,36B x 24,23 H x 3,05 T Zentimeter Breite: 16,36 cm, Höhe: 24,23 cm, Tiefe: 3,05 cm
• Gewicht: 1,228 Pfund
• Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers

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“A lively and compelling account . . . The cumulative effect is impressive. . . . Ahamed tells his story with an easy fluency and a high velocity.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Superb . . . Ahamed thrillingly brings back to life a boom not unlike today's . . . In the process, he illuminates new ways of thinking about finance.” —Financial Times

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by Literary Hub

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lords of Finance, a magnificent and timely reckoning with the first truly global financial calamity and the famous banking family at the center of the whirlwind

Over the course of the 1850s and 1860s, during the first era of globalization, the world experienced an unprecedented economic boom. Fueling this expansion was an explosion in the global bond market, at the hub of which stood one family—the Rothschilds, arguably the wealthiest banking family in history. While the giant sums of capital provided through the bond market built the railroads, the century’s most transformative investments, the money raised also unleashed a frenzy of speculation, massive overinvestment, and wasteful borrowing by governments.

With excessive euphoria leading to disappointed expectations, in the early 1870s the bubble burst. Stock markets from Vienna to New York crashed, and dozens of railroads and many governments defaulted. Financial officials responded by blundering into a precipitous remaking of the global currency system—exacerbating the ensuing economic collapse and setting the stage for decades of a punitive deflation that sparked waves of anti-globalist populism. As Liaquat Ahamed shows us in this enthralling history, the crisis of 1873 was, among other things, a death blow to Reconstruction in the United States and the proximate cause of the Ottoman Empire’s slow death spiral. Ironically, though the Rothschilds had presciently kept a low profile during the bubble, when the deluge came, they were viciously scapegoated as part of a wider hatred directed at “Jewish finance,” a strain of antisemitism that would come to full evil flower during the twentieth century.

1873 is a bird’s-eye reckoning with the full dimension of the crisis, from its buildup to its long aftermath. The Rothschilds and a cast of other witnesses give us the human perspective. And we have a brilliant financial historian’s grasp of the larger forces at play, resulting in a global narrative with thrilling explanatory power.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Liaquat Ahamed graduated with degrees in economics from Cambridge and Harvard, worked at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., and had a twenty-five career as a professional investment manager based in London and New York before turning to writing. His first book, Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, about the lead up to the 1929 Great Depression, won the Pulitzer Prize for History, the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award Gold Medal, and the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award. He is a trustee of Putnam Investments, an adviser to the RockCreek group, and the chair of the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference. He lives in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., with his wife, Meena.