Global Merchants. The enterprise and extravagance of the Sassoon dynasty
Details:
- Author(s) Sassoon, Joseph
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2021
- Pages 448pp; illus
- Publisher Penguin
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Social responsibility, social control & philanthropy
- Name Business/Industry failure, decline, lack of success, etc: decline of businesses
- Name Entrepreneurship inc cultural influences, opportunity, etc
- Name Cultural assets collection & patronage
- Name Faith & ethnicity
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Scholarly account by the Sassoon businesses and family by a US professor of history who is fluent in Judeo-Arabic script used by the Sassoon family in their record keeping. Based on Sassoon archives at University of Jerusalem / National Archives of Israel. Deals with both the rise and fall of the businesses and diversions from entrepreneurship. Includes much on opium trade. Chapters include: 'Baghdad beginnings, 1802-30'; 'Exile and a new life, 1831-9'; 'Wars and opportunities, 1839-57'; 'Branching out, 1858-64'; 'Death and division, 1864-7'; 'Competition within the family, 1867-71'; 'London calling, 1872-80'; 'High society, 1880-94'; 'The matriarchs, 1895-1901'; 'A new century, 1902-14'; 'War and uncertainty, 1914-24';'From Bombay to Shanghai, 1925-49'; 'The final countdown, 1949-82'