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Donald Sassoon

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November 25, 1946

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Donald Sassoon is Emeritus Professor of Comparative European History at Queen Mary, University of London.

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Average rating: 3.71 · 780 ratings · 92 reviews · 31 distinct works • Similar authors

	Mona Lisa: The History of the World’s Most Famous Painting (Story of the Best-Known Painting in the World) 3.38 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 2001 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Hundred Years of Socialism 4.13 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1996 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Becoming Mona Lisa: The Making of a Global Icon 3.35 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2001 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mussolini and the Rise of Fascism 3.62 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Anxious Triumph: A Global History of Capitalism, 1860-1914 4.02 avg rating — 60 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Culture of the Europeans: From 1800 to the Present 4.09 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2006 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Leonardo and the Mona Lisa Story: The History of a Painting Told in Pictures by Donald Sassoon, Leonardo da Vinci (Painter) 3.86 avg rating — 56 ratings — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Morbid Symptoms: Anatomy of a World in Crisis 3.48 avg rating — 40 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Intervista immaginaria con Karl Marx by Donald Sassoon, Leonardo Clausi (Translator), Paolo Martore (Translator) 2.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Looking Left: Socialism in Europe After the Cold War 3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1998	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Books, after all, do not have the same impact whenever we read them.”
― Donald Sassoon, The Culture of the Europeans: From 1800 to the Present

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“Yan Fu was convinced that since ‘the wealth and power of modern Europe are attributed by experts to the science of economics’ and that ‘Economics began with Adam Smith, who developed the great principle … that in serving the greater interest, the interest of both sides must be served’, then China had to learn from Adam Smith.96 The West, explained Yan Fu, exalted dynamism, and assertiveness; its commitment to liberty released the potential of individuals. That’s why the West was rich and powerful. China should turn her back on ‘the way of the Sages’ and the traditionalism that kept her people weak and ignorant.97”
― Donald Sassoon, The Anxious Triumph: A Global History of Capitalism, 1860-1914

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“The fate of ‘laggards’ in history is somewhat curious. They are impinged upon far more by the external world than the so-called pioneers. They are supposed to catch up yet they cannot replicate exactly the action of the pathbreakers, for the latter operate in an environment in which, by definition, they have few or no competitors. If you are on top and no one challenges you, there is no need to try to change anything (though perhaps you should). There is a reason why old elites are conservative. It is one thing to initiate change, as Britain did; it is another to have change thrust upon you. One needs to react. Laggards cannot wait for entrepreneurs to materialize out of nothing. The state must take the lead.”
― Donald Sassoon, The Anxious Triumph: A Global History of Capitalism, 1860-1914

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