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The Sassoons the great global merchants and the making of an empire

"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 chan...

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Main Author: Sassoon, Joseph (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Pantheon Books, [2022]
Edition: First United States edition.
Subjects:
Sassoon, David, > 1792-1864 > Family.
Sassoon family.
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.
Jews > Iraq > Baghdad > Biography.
Great Britain > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Baghdad Beginnings, 1802-1830
  • Exile and a New Life, 1831-1838
  • 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.

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