The Sassoons : the great global merchants and the making of an empire
(Large Print)
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Published
New York : Random House Large Print, [2022].
Edition
First large print edition.
ISBN
9780593679029, 0593679024
Physical Desc
xxiv, 672 pages (large print) : illustrations, genealogical tables, maps ; 24 cm
Status
COULEE CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY
LGE TYPE 929.209 SASSOON
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Biographies.
David Sassoon & Co. -- History.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Jewish businesspeople -- China -- Shanghai -- Biography.
Jewish businesspeople -- England -- London -- Biography.
Jewish businesspeople -- India -- Mumbai -- Biography.
Jewish families -- Great Britain.
Jews -- Iraq -- Baghdad -- Biography.
Large type books.
Opium trade -- India -- History -- 19th century.
Sassoon family.
Sassoon, David, -- 1792-1864 -- Family.
David Sassoon & Co. -- History.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Jewish businesspeople -- China -- Shanghai -- Biography.
Jewish businesspeople -- England -- London -- Biography.
Jewish businesspeople -- India -- Mumbai -- Biography.
Jewish families -- Great Britain.
Jews -- Iraq -- Baghdad -- Biography.
Large type books.
Opium trade -- India -- History -- 19th century.
Sassoon family.
Sassoon, David, -- 1792-1864 -- Family.
More Details
Published
New York : Random House Large Print, [2022].
Format
Large Print
Edition
First large print edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9780593679029, 0593679024
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 607-627) and index.
Description
"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."--
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Sassoon, J. (2022). The Sassoons: the great global merchants and the making of an empire (First large print edition.). Random House Large Print.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Sassoon, Joseph. 2022. The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire. Random House Large Print.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Sassoon, Joseph. The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire Random House Large Print, 2022.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Sassoon, Joseph. The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire First large print edition., Random House Large Print, 2022.
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