The Worlds of Victor Sassoon : Bombay, London, Shanghai, 1918-1941 : Rosemary Wakeman.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Wakeman, Rosemary.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Sassoon, Elias Victor, 1881-1961.
• Capitalists and financiers--Biography.
• Globalization--Economic aspects.
• Globalization--China--Shanghai.
• Globalization--England--London.
• Globalization--India--Mumbai.
• International trade--History--20th century.
• Mumbai (India)--Commerce.
• London (England)--Commerce.
• Shanghai (China)--Commerce.

Genre:

• Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2024.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

• Intro
• Contents
• 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.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

• 9780226834191
• 0226834190

OCLC:

1435579968