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The Anxious Triumph of Capitalism an Interview with Donald Sassoon

The Anxious Triumph of Capitalism an Interview with Donald Sassoon JOURNAL OF BALKAN AND NEAR EASTERN STUDIES 2021, VOL. 23, NO. 1, 1–10 https://doi.org/10.1080/19448953.2020.1852006 INTERVIEW The Anxious Triumph of Capitalism an Interview with Donald Sassoon Donald Sassoon Donald Sassoon’s most recent work, The Anxious Triumph; A Global History of Capitalism, 1860–1914 (Allen Lane, 2019, Penguin paperback 2021), is a masterly account of the period in which global capitalism truly emerged under the primacy of European colonial powers and the rising presence of the United States. In his review in The Guardian, Adam Tooze wrote that it is ‘quirkily brilliant . . . familiar facts mingle with jaw-dropping novelties . . . ’, whereas Harold James in Financial Times calls it a ‘polymath’s intellectual tour de force . . . a magnum opus . . . .This is a book for today and tomorrow’ and Ferdinand Mount, in the TLS writes: ‘An unfailingly enjoyable history of a tumultuous half-century . . . His asides are sometimes playful, sometimes caustic, but always to the point . . . masterly . . . the doyen of comparative historians’. The book was long-listed for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year. His Morbid Symptoms. Anatomy of a World in Crisis will be http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies Taylor & Francis

The Anxious Triumph of Capitalism an Interview with Donald Sassoon

Sassoon, Donald
Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies , Volume 23 (1): 10 – Jan 2, 2021
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JOURNAL OF BALKAN AND NEAR EASTERN STUDIES 2021, VOL. 23, NO. 1, 1–10 https://doi.org/10.1080/19448953.2020.1852006 INTERVIEW The Anxious Triumph of Capitalism an Interview with Donald Sassoon Donald Sassoon Donald Sassoon’s most recent work, The Anxious Triumph; A Global History of Capitalism, 1860–1914 (Allen Lane, 2019, Penguin paperback 2021), is a masterly account of the period in which global capitalism truly emerged under the primacy of European colonial powers and...
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JOURNAL OF BALKAN AND NEAR EASTERN STUDIES 2021, VOL. 23, NO. 1, 1–10 https://doi.org/10.1080/19448953.2020.1852006 INTERVIEW The Anxious Triumph of Capitalism an Interview with Donald Sassoon Donald Sassoon Donald Sassoon’s most recent work, The Anxious Triumph; A Global History of Capitalism, 1860–1914 (Allen Lane, 2019, Penguin paperback 2021), is a masterly account of the period in which global capitalism truly emerged under the primacy of European colonial powers and the rising presence of the United States. In his review in The Guardian, Adam Tooze wrote that it is ‘quirkily brilliant . . . familiar facts mingle with jaw-dropping novelties . . . ’, whereas Harold James in Financial Times calls it a ‘polymath’s intellectual tour de force . . . a magnum opus . . . .This is a book for today and tomorrow’ and Ferdinand Mount, in the TLS writes: ‘An unfailingly enjoyable history of a tumultuous half-century . . . His asides are sometimes playful, sometimes caustic, but always to the point . . . masterly . . . the doyen of comparative historians’. The book was long-listed for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year. His Morbid Symptoms. Anatomy of a World in Crisis will be

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