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The City of London: World of Its Own 1815-1890 v.1: A World of Its Own, 1815-90 Vol 1 (History of the City)
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Product Description
The acclaimed volume of three, "A World of It's Own" tells the story of the city's nineteenth century ascent to its position as the world's leading international financial centre. We see the rise of the merchant banks, the growth of the Stock Exchange, the internationalism of the money market, and the characters behind these developments, like the mercurial Nathan Rothschild or the dour Joshua Bates, who consolidated the power of Barings. High history is interwoven with drama: the burning of the Royal Exchange on a snowy night in 1838, the hectic making of fortunes from South American guano; the Baring crisis of 1890, when the city's most respected house was rescued by its keenest rival. Drawing on an unparalleled range of original source material, "A World of It's Own" brings the City of London for the first time into the mainstream of British and international history.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #87642 in Books
- Published on: 1995-06-01
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 512 pages
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
David Kynaston was born at Aldershot in 1951 and educated at Wellington College, New College, Oxford, and the London School of Economics. He has been a professional historian for twenty years. Since 1979 his principal interest has been the city of London, interrupted by three excursions into cricket history. His publications include King Labour: The British Working Class 1850-1914, the historical surveys The Secretary of State and The Chancellor of the Exchequer, and major histories of the Financial Times and of the leading stockbrokers Cazenove & Co.
Customer Reviews
A lot of excellent contemporary material
What makes this book highly enjoyable and interesting is the large amount of extracts from contemporary material. This material provides a window into the thought processes and lifestyles of many people involved with the City of London during the Nineteenth Century. Not just the high fliers, but also newly appointed clerks nervously starting out on their career within banking.
Where I feel the book fails, is that it relies too much on the contemporary material, and were that removed there is not a lot left. Specifically, I felt that some of the "big" events described were lacking sufficent detail. Thrown away in a paragraph or two.
