Suchergebnisse

Review of: The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire, Joseph Sassoon (2022)
New York: Pantheon Books, 412 pp.,
ISBN 978-0-59331-659-7, h/bk, $35.00

Donald Sassoon was born in Cairo & went to school in Paris, Milan & England. He went to University College London, the Pennsylvania State University & obtained his PhD at Birkbeck College, University of London. Among his publications: One Hundred Years of Socialism (Deutscher Prize 1997, five translations), Mona Lisa (2001, ten translations), The Culture of the Europeans (2006, four forthcoming translations) & Mussolini & the Rise of Fascism (2008, four forthcoming translations). He is currently Professor of Comparative European History at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the Literary Editor of The Political Quarterly & on the hoard of a number of journals including Thesis Eleven. He was interviewed by Peter Beilharz in London in August 2006 & August 2007. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications and Thesis Eleven Co-op Ltd, copyright holder.]

Treaties of peace — Performance of — Claims for compensation in respect of loss or damage to property — Valuation of property and assessment of compensation — Factor applicable to raise value of goods compulsorily sold in war to price level for similar goods at time of payment of compensation — Treaty of Peace with Japan, Article 15 (a) — Draft Allied Powers Property Compensation Law, Article 5.414Treaties of peace — Performance of — Claims for compensation in respect of loss or damage to property — Responsibility of Government for acts of Trade Association subject to directives of Government Department — Whether basis of claims for compensation limited to measures "taken towards the enemy" — Treaty of Peace with Japan, Article 15 (a) — Draft Allied Powers Property Compensation Law, Articles 2 and 4.