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The Worlds of Victor Sassoon: Bombay, London, Shanghai, 1918–1941

Autor Rosemary Wakeman
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 iul 2024
An interpretative history of global urbanity in the 1920s and 1930s, from the vantage point of Bombay, London, and Shanghai, that follows the life of business tycoon Victor Sassoon.
 
In this book, historian Rosemary Wakeman brings to life the frenzied, crowded streets, markets, ports, and banks of Bombay, London, and Shanghai. In the early twentieth century, these cities were at the forefront of the sweeping changes taking the world by storm as it entered an era of globalized commerce and the unprecedented circulation of goods, people, and ideas. Wakeman explores these cities and the world they helped transform through the life of Victor Sassoon, who in 1924 gained control of his powerful family’s trading and banking empire. She tracks his movements between these three cities as he grows his family’s fortune and transforms its holdings into a global juggernaut. Using his life as its point of entry, The Worlds of Victor Sassoon paints a broad portrait not just of wealth, cosmopolitanism, and leisure but also of the discrimination, exploitation, and violence wreaked by a world increasingly driven by the demands of capital.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226834184
ISBN-10: 0226834182
Pagini: 264
Ilustrații: 11 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press

Notă biografică

Rosemary Wakeman is professor of history at Fordham University. She is the author of A Modern History of European Cities: 1815 to the Present as well as The Heroic City: Paris, 1945–1958 and Practicing Utopia: An Intellectual History of the New Town Movement, the latter two also published by the University of Chicago Press

Cuprins

Introduction
One The Fortunes of Empire
Two Bombay, Wonder of the World
Three Bombay, Global Helm
Four London, Magnet of the World
Five London, Capital of Finance
Six Enigmatic Shanghai
Seven Global Shanghai
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Recenzii

“Wakeman is a historian at the top of her game. From the career of the international businessman Victor Sassoon between the world wars, she spins a tale of three cities and the myriad networks of trade, finance, and society that connected them. Mixing urban history, business history, and biography, this book is at once a story of empire and wealth as well as one of migration, poverty, strikes, and war. If you are looking for an imaginative take on global urban history, this is a wonderful place to start.”

“Following the life of Victor Sassoon, this engaging and accessible book successfully argues that the interwar period in the first decade of the twentieth century was when large cities around the world became intricately connected through the circulation of global capital.”

“Wakeman brings imperial economic history to life, interweaving brilliant cultural analysis with lively stories of men, money, and markets. The result is a tour de force of global urban history during the interwar period.”