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This bibliography consists of selected standard works about the development of the Rothschild business, the family's interests in art, gardening, viticulture and estate management, and biographies and autobiographies of members of the family.

General

The Rothschilds: a family of fortune
Virginia Cowles (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973)

The English Rothschilds
Richard Davis (London: Collins 1983)

The Rothschilds: a European family.
Georg Heuberger (ed.) (Frankfurt: Thorbecke, 1994. 2 volumes)

Return of the Rothschilds
Herbert Lottman (London: I.B. Tauris, 1995)

Rothschild: a story of wealth and power
Derek Wilson (London: Andre Deutsch, 1988)

Plutocrats: a Rothschild inheritance
George Ireland (London: John Murray, 2007)

Business and banking

A Century of Finance
Jules Ayer (London: np, 1905)

Nathan Mayer Rothschild and the Creation of a Dynasty: the critical Years 1806-1816
Herbert H. Kaplan (Califonia: Stanford University Press, 2006)

The Rise of the House of Rothschild and The Reign of the House of Rothschild
Count Corti (London: Victor Gollancz, 1928)

Le Finanze Ponteficie e i Rothschild 1830-1870
Daniela Felisini (Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1990)

The World's Banker: the history of the house of Rothschild
Niall Ferguson (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998)

Histoire de la Maison Rothschild
Bertrand Gille (Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1965 & 1967. 2 volumes)

Letters from Paris 1870-1875: written by C. de B., a political informant to the head of the London House of Rothschild
Robert Henrey (ed.), London, 1942

La Casa Rothschild en España (1835-1941)
Miguel López-Morell (Madrid: Marcial Pons, 2005)

Los Rothschild y las Minas de Almadén
Victoriano Martín Martín (Madrid: Instituto de Estudios Fiscales, 1980)

Los Rothschild y sus Socios en España
Alfonso de Otazu (Madrid: O Hs Ediciones, 1987)

Rothschild Relish
Ronald Palin (London: Cassell, 1970)

'You Have It, Madam': the purchase, in 1875, of Suez Canal shares by Disraeli and Baron Lionel de Rothschild
Victor, 3rd Lord Rothschild (London: np, 1980)

The Shadow of a Great Man
Victor, 3rd Lord Rothschild (London: np, 1982)

Along Rothschild Lines: the story of Rothschild & railways across the world
Richard Schofield (London: The Rothschild Archive, 2002)

NM Rothschild & Sons: Kommunikationswege im europaeischen Bankenwesen im 19 Jahrhundert
Rainer Liedtke (Koeln: Boehlau 2006)

Biographies and memoirs

Edmond de Rothschild: l'homme qui racheta la Terre sante
Elizabeth Antebi (Monaco: Editions du Rocher, 2003)

Reminiscences
Constance Battersea (London: Macmillan, 1922)

Meyer Amschel Rothschild
Christian Berghoeffer (Frankfurt: Englert & Schlosser, 1923)

N M Rothschild 1777-1836
Stanley Chapman (London: np, 1977)

Lady de Rothschild and her Daughters, 1821-1831
Lucy Cohen (London: John Murray 1935)

Founder: Meyer Amschel Rothschild and his Time
Amos Elon (London: HarperCollins, 1996)

The Life and Times of N M Rothschild, 1777-1836
Victor Gray and Melanie Aspey (eds.) (London: The Rothschild Archive, 1998)

Plutocrats: A Rothschild Inheritance
George Ireland (London: John Murray, 2008)

Nathan Mayer Rothschild and the Creation of a Dynasty: the critical years 1806-1816
Herbert Kaplan (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006)

Milady Vine: the autobiography of Philippe de Rothschild
Joan Littlewood (London: Jonathan Cape, 1984)

Baron James: The Rise of the French Rothschilds
Anka Muhlstein (London: Collins, 1983)

Elusive Rothschild: the life of Victor, third baron
Kenneth Rose (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003)

A Gilt-Edged Life: memoir
Edmund de Rothschild (London: John Murray, 1998)

The Whims of Fortune
Guy de Rothschild (London: Granada, 1985)

Croisières Autours de mes Souvenirs
Henri de Rothschild (Paris: Éditions Émile-Paul Frères, 1932)

Dear Lord Rothschild: birds, butterflies and history
Miriam Rothschild (London: Hutchinson, 1983)

Two Rothschilds and the Land of Israel
Simon Schama (London: Collins, 1978)

The Life and Legacy of Baroness Betty de Rothschild
Laura Schor (New York: Peter Lang, 2006)

Charlotte & Lionel: a Rothschild love story
Stanley Weintraub (London: Simon & Schuster, 2003)

Homes and gardens

Beechwoods and Bayonets: the Book of Halton
Andrew Adam (Buckingham: Barracuda Books, 1983)

Gunnersbury Park and the Rothschilds
Ann and James Collett-White (London:Heritage Publications, 1993 )

Waddesdon Manor
Michael Hall (New York: Abrams, 2002)


Les Rothschild: Batisseurs et Mécènes
Pauline Prevost Marcilhacy (Paris: Flammarion, 1996)

The Rothschilds at Waddesdon Manor
Mrs James de Rothschild (London: Collins, 1979)

Rothschild Gardens
Miriam Rothschild, Kate Garton and Lionel de Rothschild (London: Gaia Books, 1996)