The Sassoons

The Sassoons
Author :
Publisher : Pantheon
Total Pages : 431
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780593316603
ISBN-13 : 0593316606
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Sassoons by : Joseph Sassoon

Download or read book The Sassoons written by Joseph Sassoon and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spectacular generational saga of the making (and undoing) of a family dynasty: the riveting untold story of the gilded Jewish Bagdadi Sassoons, who built a vast empire through global finance and trade—cotton, opium, shipping, banking—that reached across three continents and ultimately changed the destinies of nations. With full access to rare family photographs and archives. “Engaging...compelling...well-paced and supremely satisfying. ”—The New York Times They were one of the richest families in the world for two hundred years, from the 19th century to the 20th, and were known as ‘the Rothschilds of the East.’ Mesopotamian in origin, and for more than forty years the chief treasurers to the pashas of Baghdad and Basra, they were forced to flee to Bushir on the Persian Gulf; David Sassoon and sons starting over with nothing, and beginning to trade in India in cotton and opium. The Sassoons soon were building textile mills and factories, and setting up branches in shipping in China, and expanding beyond, to Japan, and further west, to Paris and London. They became members of British parliament; were knighted; and 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.


The Sassoons Related Books

The Sassoons
Language: en
Pages: 431
Authors: Joseph Sassoon
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-10-25 - Publisher: Pantheon

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A spectacular generational saga of the making (and undoing) of a family dynasty: the riveting untold story of the gilded Jewish Bagdadi Sassoons, who built a va
The Last Kings of Shanghai
Language: en
Pages: 385
Authors: Jonathan Kaufman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-06-01 - Publisher: Penguin

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"In vivid detail... examines the little-known history of two extraordinary dynasties."--The Boston Globe "Not just a brilliant, well-researched, and highly read
The Sassoons
Language: en
Pages: 344
Authors: Stanley Jackson
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1968 - Publisher: London : Heinemann

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

David Sassoon (1792-1864) continued the family trading empire in Bagdad. He and his family immigrated to India. Descendants lived in India, China, England, and
The Global Merchants
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Joseph Sassoon
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-03-28 - Publisher: National Geographic Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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 Sassoons
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: Esther da Costa Meyer
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-04-04 - Publisher: Yale University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Tracing the global history of the Sassoon family, entrepreneurs and patrons of remarkable art and architecture, from Baghdad to Mumbai, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and