The Global Merchants
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The astonishing story of the Sassoons, one of the nineteenth
century's preeminent commercial families and 'the Rothschilds of
the East'The Sassoons were one of the great commercial dynasties of
the nineteenth century, as eminent as traders as the Rothschilds
were as bankers. In this rich and nuanced portrait of the family,
Joseph Sassoon uncovers the secrets behind their phenomenal
success: how a handful of Jewish refugees exiled from Ottoman
Baghdad forged a mercantile juggernaut trading cotton and opium,
the role of their vast network of agents, informants and
politicians in extending their reach beyond their new home in
India, bridging East and West. Through the lives these ambitious
figures built for themselves in Bombay, London and Shanghai, the
reader is drawn into a captivating world of politics, business,
society and empire - for their meteoric rise was facilitated by
their ties to the British imperial project, and its waning
coincided with their own.Drawing for the first time on the Sassoon
family archives, written largely in an obscure Judeo-Arabic script
indecipherable to previous historians, The Global Merchants is at
once an intimate history of a family across three generations and
an extraordinary panorama, which reveals their place in the
world-historical developments of the 150 years of their prominence:
from the American Civil War to the establishment of the British
Raj, the Opium Wars to the Japanese occupation of China, and the
true beginning of globalization in all its dimensions.
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Penguin Books ,
Joseph Sassoon
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Penguin Books,
Joseph Sassoon
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Slovart
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