E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm
Davies Emile and Isaac Pereire
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1094-7
Verlag: Princeton University Press
Format: EPUB
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Bankers, Socialists and Sephardic Jews in nineteenth-century France
E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm
Reihe: Studies in Modern French and Francophone History
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1094-7
Verlag: Princeton University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Emile (1800-75) and Isaac Pereire (1806-80) were pivotal and sensational figures, their lives and careers a lens through which to re-examine the history of France in the nineteenth century. Among the first generation of Jews emancipated by the French Revolution, they became significant Saint-Simonians, contributing to its philosophy of financial and economic reform. They were the first to implement the new rail technology in France and to launch the first investment bank of any size in Europe, the Credit Mobilier. The Pereires ultimately came to stand behind banks and railways throughout Europe and in the Ottoman Empire. They were thus major players in France's and Europe's industrialisation and the modernisation of its banking system. This book is equally a social and cultural history of the Jews in France, addressing the means through which the Pereires managed their business empire and the contribution of family life to its success. It is their first full-scale biography in English.
