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The Sassoons

The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire

By: Joseph Sassoon

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The Sassoons

The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire

By: Joseph Sassoon

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.

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431

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Pantheon

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0593316606

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9780593316603

China since Tiananmen

From Deng Xiaoping to Hu Jintao

By: Joseph Fewsmith

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China since Tiananmen

From Deng Xiaoping to Hu Jintao

By: Joseph Fewsmith

In this edition of his path-breaking analysis of political and social change in China since the crackdown in Tiananmen Square in 1989, Joseph Fewsmith traces developments since 2001. These include the continuing reforms during the final years of Jiang Zemin's premiership and Hu Jintao's succession in 2002. Here the author also considers social trends and how Chinese citizens are starting to have a significant influence on government policies. As Fewsmith - a highly regarded political scientist and a seasoned China-watcher - observes, China is a very different place since Tiananmen Square. In the interim, it has emerged from isolation to become one of the most significant players on the world stage. This book explains the forces that have shaped China since Tiananmen.

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338

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Cambridge University Press

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1139472135

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9781139472135

Civetta, Taylor, & Kirby's Critical Care Medicine

By: A. Joseph Layon,Andrea Gabrielli,Mihae Yu,Kenneth E. Wood

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Civetta, Taylor, & Kirby's Critical Care Medicine

By: A. Joseph Layon,Andrea Gabrielli,Mihae Yu,Kenneth E. Wood

Covering every problem encountered in today’s intensive care unit, this leading critical care textbook presents the knowledge and expertise of more than 350 global experts in this fast-changing field. Beginning with the social aspects of medicine, it then discusses monitoring and organ system pathobiology followed by specific diseases states/syndromes. Each chapter begins with immediate concerns and proceeds to broader-based discussions of relevant pathophysiologic and clinical issues.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1469889854

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9781469889856

Ancestral Leaves

A Family Journey through Chinese History

By: Joseph W. Esherick

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Ancestral Leaves

A Family Journey through Chinese History

By: Joseph W. Esherick

Ancestral Leaves follows one family through six hundred years of Chinese history and brings to life the epic narrative of the nation, from the fourteenth century through the Cultural Revolution. The lives of the Ye family—"Ye" means "leaf" in Chinese—reveal the human side of the large-scale events that shaped modern China: the vast and destructive rebellions of the nineteenth century, the economic growth and social transformation of the republican era, the Japanese invasion during World War II, and the Cultural Revolution under the Chinese Communists. Joseph W. Esherick draws from rare manuscripts and archival and oral history sources to provide an uncommonly personal and intimate glimpse into Chinese family history, illuminating the changing patterns of everyday life during rebellion, war, and revolution.

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393

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Univ of California Press

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0520947622

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9780520947627

Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara in the Years 1843-1845

By: Wolff Joseph

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Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara in the Years 1843-1845

By: Wolff Joseph

Reprint of the original, first published in 1846.

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522

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368733486

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9783368733483

The Homoerotics of Orientalism

By: Joseph A. Boone

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The Homoerotics of Orientalism

By: Joseph A. Boone

One of the largely untold stories of Orientalism is the degree to which the Middle East has been associated with "deviant" male homosexuality by scores of Western travelers, historians, writers, and artists for well over four hundred years. And this story stands to shatter our preconceptions of Orientalism. To illuminate why and how the Islamicate world became the locus for such fantasies and desires, Boone deploys a supple mode of analysis that reveals how the cultural exchanges between Middle East and West have always been reciprocal and often mutual, amatory as well as bellicose. Whether examining European accounts of Istanbul and Egypt as hotbeds of forbidden desire, juxtaposing Ottoman homoerotic genres and their European imitators, or unlocking the homoerotic encoding in Persian miniatures and Orientalist paintings, this remarkable study models an ethics of crosscultural reading that exposes, with nuance and economy, the crucial role played by the homoerotics of Orientalism in shaping the world as we know it today. A contribution to studies in visual culture as well as literary and social history, The Homoerotics of Orientalism draws on primary sources ranging from untranslated Middle Eastern manuscripts and European belles-lettres to miniature paintings and photographic erotica that are presented here for the first time.

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537

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Columbia University Press

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0231521820

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9780231521826

Critical race theory and inequality in the labour market

Racial stratification in Ireland

By: Ebun Joseph

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Critical race theory and inequality in the labour market

Racial stratification in Ireland

By: Ebun Joseph

This book employs critical race theory as a theoretical and analytical framework to unveil how racial stratification shapes the socioeconomic outcomes and racial inequality in the labour market. The pages guide students interested in CRT and investigating racism, discrimination and inequality.

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Manchester University Press

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1526134411

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9781526134417

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The Sassoons

The Sassoons

China since Tiananmen

China since Tiananmen

Civetta, Taylor, & Kirby's Critical Care Medicine

Civetta, Taylor, & Kirby's Critical Care Medicine

Ancestral Leaves

Ancestral Leaves

Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara in the Years 1843-1845

Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara in the Years 1843-1845

The Homoerotics of Orientalism

The Homoerotics of Orientalism

Critical race theory and inequality in the labour market

Critical race theory and inequality in the labour market

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