GLOBAL MERCHANTS: THE SASSOON DYNASTY (PB)

The Sassoons were one of the great business dynasties of the nineteenth century, as eminent as traders as the Rothschilds were bankers. This book reveals the secrets behind the family's phenomenal success: how a handful of Jewish exiles from Ottoman Baghdad forged a mercantile juggernaut from their new home in colonial Bombay. Drawing for the first time on the vast family archives, Joseph Sassoon brings vividly to life a succession of remarkable characters.