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Author Sassoon, Joseph, author.

Title The Sassoons : the great global merchants and the making of an empire / Joseph Sassoon.

Publication Info. New York : Pantheon Books, [2022]

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Location Call No. Status
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIO SASSOON    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  B SASSOON FAMILY    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Biographies  B SASSOON FAMILY S    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult New Materials  B SASSOON FAMILY S    Missing
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  929.2 SASSOON    Check Shelf
Edition First United States edition.
Description xviii, 412 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), genealogical tables, maps ; 25 cm
Note Maps on end papers.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-386) and index.
Contents 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.
Summary "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."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Sassoon, David, 1792-1864 -- Family.
Sassoon family.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Jewish families -- Great Britain.
Jewish businesspeople -- England -- London -- Biography.
Jewish businesspeople -- China -- Shanghai -- Biography.
Jewish businesspeople -- India -- Mumbai -- Biography.
Opium trade -- India -- History -- 19th century.
David Sassoon & Co. -- History.
Jews -- Iraq -- Baghdad -- Biography.
Sassoon, David, 1792-1864. (OCoLC)fst00454314
Sassoon family. (OCoLC)fst00262864
Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
Jewish businesspeople. (OCoLC)fst00982678
Jewish families. (OCoLC)fst00982765
Jews. (OCoLC)fst00983135
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
Opium trade. (OCoLC)fst01046574
China -- Shanghai. (OCoLC)fst01205418
England -- London. (OCoLC)fst01204271
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
India. (OCoLC)fst01210276
India -- Mumbai. (OCoLC)fst01802300
Iraq -- Baghdad. (OCoLC)fst01207444
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Biographies.
Other Form: Online version: Sassoon, Joseph. Sassoons New York : Pantheon Books, 2022 9780593316603 (DLC) 2021059645
ISBN 9780593316597 (hardcover)
0593316592 (hardcover)
9780593316603 (e-book)
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