The Global MerchantsThe astonishing story of the Sassoons, one of the nineteenth century's pre eminent commercial families and 'the Rothschilds of the East'. The Sassoons were one of the great business dynasties of the nineteenth century, as eminent as traders as the Rothschilds were bankers. The Global Merchants reveals the secrets behind the family's phenomenal successhow a handful of Jewish exiles from Ottoman Baghdad forged a mercantile juggernaut from their new home