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100 1 Sassoon, Joseph,|eauthor.
245 14 The Sassoons :|bthe great global merchants and the making
of an empire /|cJoseph Sassoon.
250 First United States edition.
263 2210
264 1 New York :|bPantheon Books,|c[2022]
300 xviii, 412 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
|billustrations (some color), genealogical tables, maps ;
|c25 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
500 Maps on end papers.
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-386) and
index.
505 0 Baghdad Beginnings, 1802-1830 -- Exile and a New Life,
1831-1839 -- Wars and Opportunities, 1839-1857 --
Branching Out, 1858-1864 -- Death and Division, 1864-1867
-- Competition within the Family, 1867-1871 -- London
Calling, 1872-1880 -- High Society, 1880-1894 -- The
Matriarch, 1895-1901 -- A New Century, 1902-1914 -- War
and Uncertainty, 1914-1924 -- From Bombay to Shanghai,
1925-1949 -- The Final Countdown, 1949-1982.
520 "A spectacular story, the making of a dynasty, one of the
great untold sagas of a gilded Jewish Bagdadi family--the
merchant princes of the orient, that built a vast empire
through finance and trade: opium, cotton, oil, shipping,
banking, that reached across three continents, and
ultimately changed the destinies of nations. For more than
two centuries, from the 18th to the 20th, they were one of
the richest families in the world, known as 'the
Rothschilds of the East.' Mesopotamian in origin, they
descended from 12th century court families of Eurasia, and
for more than forty years, were the chief treasurers to
the pashas of Baghdad and Iraq. Forced to flee the tyranny
of Bagdadhi Moslems to Bushehr on the Persian Gulf, David
Sassoon with his fourteen children, started over with
nothing, intent on reclaiming what had once been theirs.
They began to trade in cotton and opium, expanded to India,
taking control of the country's opium export. The Sassoons
built textile mills and factories, developed ports, and
set up branches in banking, shipping, mining, oil, in
Burma, Malaya, and China; expanding beyond, to Japan, and
further west, to Paris and London. Sassoons became members
of British parliament, barons; were knighted; owned and
edited Britain's leading newspapers, including The Sunday
Times and The Observer. And in 1887, the exalted dynasty
of Sassoon joined forces with the banking empire of
Rothschild and were soon joined by marriage, fusing
together two of the biggest Jewish commerce and banking
families in the world. Against the monumental canvas of
two centuries of the Ottoman Empire and the changing face
of the Far East, across Europe and Great Britain during
the time of its farthest reach, Joseph Sassoon gives us a
riveting generational saga of the making of this
magnificent family dynasty."--|cProvided by publisher.
600 10 Sassoon, David,|d1792-1864|xFamily.
600 17 Sassoon, David,|d1792-1864.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00454314
600 30 Sassoon family.
600 37 Sassoon family.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00262864
610 20 David Sassoon & Co.|xHistory.
648 7 1800-1999|2fast
650 0 Jewish families|zGreat Britain.
650 0 Jewish businesspeople|zEngland|zLondon|vBiography.
650 0 Jewish businesspeople|zChina|zShanghai|vBiography.
650 0 Jewish businesspeople|zIndia|zMumbai|vBiography.
650 0 Opium trade|zIndia|xHistory|y19th century.
650 0 Jews|zIraq|zBaghdad|vBiography.
650 7 Families.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01728849
650 7 Jewish businesspeople.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00982678
650 7 Jewish families.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00982765
650 7 Jews.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00983135
650 7 Manners and customs.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01007815
650 7 Opium trade.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01046574
651 0 Great Britain|xSocial life and customs|y20th century.
651 7 China|zShanghai.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01205418
651 7 England|zLondon.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204271
651 7 Great Britain.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204623
651 7 India.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01210276
651 7 India|zMumbai.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01802300
651 7 Iraq|zBaghdad.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01207444
655 7 Biographies.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919896
655 7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628
655 7 Biographies.|2lcgft
776 08 |iOnline version:|aSassoon, Joseph.|tSassoons|dNew York :
Pantheon Books, 2022|z9780593316603|w(DLC) 2021059645
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