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- Title
ROTHSCHILDS AND BRAZIL: An Introduction to Sources in The Rothschild Archive.
- Authors
Shaw, Caroline
- Abstract
N. M. Rothschild & Sons (NMR), the banking house which the Frankfurt-born Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777-1836) began operating from New Court in London in 1809 and which is continued to this day by his descendants, has a long history of involvement in Brazil. Extensive documentation of this history is preserved in The Rothschild Archive in London, where material up to 1930 is available for consultation. The firm's initial business with Brazil was in merchant banking activities and bullion dealing, but in 1855 it became the Brazilian government's financial agent in London and went on to handle the government's borrowing in the London capital markets and to be closely concerned with the country's fiscal, commercial, and exchange rate policy. With the bank at the heart of the development of Brazilian public finance. The Rothschild Archive is an important resource for an understanding of this aspect of Brazilian economic and political history, as well as the history of British informal imperialism and emerging patterns of globalization.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; N.M. Rothschild &; Sons Ltd.; BANKING industry; FINANCIAL institutions; GLOBALIZATION; ARCHIVES; CONSUMER lending
- Publication
Latin American Research Review, 2005, Vol 40, Issue 1, p165
- ISSN
0023-8791
- Publication type
Report
- DOI
10.1353/lar.2005.0013