Donald Sassoon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3744639 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald Sassoon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald |
| FAMILY NAME | Sassoon |
| SIGNATURE | SASSOON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Changing the Guard
Gaza
The threat from America
Israel's Catastrophic Failures
Flushing Winston Churchill down the WC of history
Starmer's sorry sad saga
The Italian Communist Party, Wars and Revolutions
Following the path dependence principle, the article describes the emergence of communism and the role played by wars and revolutions as unrepeatable and extraordinary catalyst factors. According to this view, communist parties can be considered institutions that outlasted the situations that created them and that, to survive, have been constantly forced to adapt to new circumstances such as fascism, the cold war or the clash of ussr. In this fra…
The Anxious Triumph of Capitalism an Interview with 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 cap
Guardianistas of the world unite! But not too much
The poverty of ‘Macronism’
The worst British Prime Minister ever
Covid‐19
It was Gorby wot done it
An American in Europe and a ‘European’ in America
The Italian anomaly
Eric Hobsbawm, 1917–2012
Appreciation of the historian as unrepentant Communist. Donald Sassoon recalls Hobsbawm’s relations with the global movement he joined in Berlin during the Popular Front era, and his contributions as scholar and panoramic comparativist
A Response to David Miliband's Lecture by Donald Sassoon
One hundred years of socialism
L'Europa che non c'č
Neverland Europe - Neverland Europe deals with a paradox: the crisis of the European Union in terms of popular and electoral consensus, and the increasing number of States longing to adhere to its structure. Economic success has been the great hit of the Union, but it has done little to overcome the wide range of still existing nationalisms. The main feature distinguishing Europe from the Us and Japan, it Welfare State, has been seriously put in …
Povera Italia
The Culture of the Europeans
A magisterial narrative account of the creation and consumption of all forms of 'culture' across the European continent over the last two hundred years. This compelling, wide-ranging and hugely ambitious book offers, for the first time ever, an integrated history of the culture produced and consumed by Europeans since 1800, and follows its transformation from an elite activity to a mass market -- from lending libraries to the internet, from the f…
From Buddenbrooks to Babbitt
Donald Sassoon on Victoria de Grazia, Irresistible Empire: America’s Advance Through 20th-Century Europe. How the US reshaped European ideals of consumption and culture, from the stately world of Thomas Mann to that of McDonald’s and José Bové. All the way from the club to the kitchen, learning from Duluth and San Bernardino
Life after Death
This collection of essays offers a novel approach to the cultural and social history of Europe after the Second World War. In a shift of perspective, it does not conceive of the impressive economic and political stability of the postwar era as a quasi-natural return to previous patterns of societal development but approaches it as an attempt to establish 'normality' upon the lingering memories of experiencing violence on a hitherto unprecedented …
On Cultural Markets
The ‘culture industry’ has typically been conceived as a unified, twentieth-century branch of production. Donald Sassoon reveals older, more variegated patterns of development, tracing international relations of cultural dominance from Scott and Verdi to the action movie
Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism
What has brought about the widespread public provision of welfare and income security within free-market liberalism? Some social scientists have regarded welfare as a preindustrial atavism; others, as a functional requirement of industrial society. Most recently, scholars have stressed the reformist actions of center-left parties during the decades following World War II, the workings of new post-industrial politics lately, and a multifaceted rol…
The Strategy of the Italian Communist Party
Tangentopoli or the democratization of corruption
Socialism in the twentieth century
Having discarded the ideal-type approach to the definition of socialism, this essay adopts a historical approach, while accepting its limitations. It distinguishes between modernizing socialism (i.e., communism) and socialism as a regulator of capitalist society, and concentrates on the latter, tracing the historical causes for its gradual abandonment of the ideology of the final aim in favour of a permanent co-existence with capitalism-the revis…
European Social Democracy and New Labour
One Hundred Years of Socialism
On 14 July 1889, the centenary of the French Revolution, socialist parties from all corners of Europe met in Paris. On the same day in the same city, the Exposition Universelle was launched to mark the achievements of capitalist production. The two events symbolized the beginning of the epic struggle between socialism and capitalism in Europe. In this comprehensive study of a century of socialism, the author traces the fortunes of the political p…
Reflections on the Labour Party's Programme for the 1990s
Political and market forces in Italian broadcasting
The Italian anomaly
On Cultural Markets
The ‘culture industry’ has typically been conceived as a unified, twentieth-century branch of production. Donald Sassoon reveals older, more variegated patterns of development, tracing international relations of cultural dominance from Scott and Verdi to the action movie
The Italian Communist Party's European Strategy
Covid‐19
A Response to David Miliband's Lecture by Donald Sassoon
Socialisme fin-de-siècle. Quelques réflexions historiques
The Rise and Fall of West European Communism 1939–48
The First World War had engendered in 1917 the first communist state and, following this, in 1919, an international communist movement. With the exception of the People's Republic of Mongolia no new communist states emerged between the wars. The Second World War provided European communism with a second chance to establish itself as a significant political force. In its aftermath the Soviet model was extended to much of the eastern part of Europe…
The Funding of Political Parties in Italy
The Italian Communist Party's European Strategy
Eurocommunism, the Labour Party and the Eec
The Strategy of the Italian Communist Party
Short notices
R. E. F. Smith and David Christian, Bread and Salt: A Social and Economic History of Food and Drink in Russia (1984), xvi+391 (Cambridge, £32#lb50). Doreen M. Rosman, Evangelicals and Culture (1984), 262 (Croom Helm, £14.95). Roger Morriss, The Royal Dockyards during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1983), ix+262 (Leicester University Press, Leicester, £28#lb50). Robert Bud and Gerrylynn Roberts, Science versus Practice: Chemistry in Victor…
Political and market forces in Italian broadcasting
Changes in Eastern Europe, European integration, and the welfare state
Reflections on the Labour Party's Programme for the 1990s
The Rise and Fall of West European Communism 1939–48
The First World War had engendered in 1917 the first communist state and, following this, in 1919, an international communist movement. With the exception of the People's Republic of Mongolia no new communist states emerged between the wars. The Second World War provided European communism with a second chance to establish itself as a significant political force. In its aftermath the Soviet model was extended to much of the eastern part of Europe…
Tangentopoli or the democratization of corruption
One Hundred Years of Socialism
On 14 July 1889, the centenary of the French Revolution, socialist parties from all corners of Europe met in Paris. On the same day in the same city, the Exposition Universelle was launched to mark the achievements of capitalist production. The two events symbolized the beginning of the epic struggle between socialism and capitalism in Europe. In this comprehensive study of a century of socialism, the author traces the fortunes of the political p…
Fin-de-Siecle Socialism
In his biography of Stalin, Isaac Deutscher asserted that the historian, inevitably, believes in inevitability: ‘The historian deals with fixed and irreversible patterns of events: all weapons have already been fired; all wills have been spent; all decisions have been achieved; and what is irreversible has assumed the
Socialisme fin-de-siècle. Quelques réflexions historiques
The PCI between 1948 and 1956
Giovanni Gozzini and Renzo Martinelli (1998) Storia del Partito comunista ‘italiano. VII. Dall'attentato a Togliatti all'VIII Congresso (Turin: Giulio Einaudi Editore), pp. i‐xviii, 1–659, 80,000 lire. The publication of the seventh volume of the ‘History of the Italian Communist Party’ is a noteworthy event. In the party's often tumultuous history, few periods were as difficult as the one covered in this volume: 1948–56 embraces the crushing def…
European Social Democracy and New Labour
Togliatti, Stalin, Hungary and the tasks of historians
Socialism in the twentieth century
Having discarded the ideal-type approach to the definition of socialism, this essay adopts a historical approach, while accepting its limitations. It distinguishes between modernizing socialism (i.e., communism) and socialism as a regulator of capitalist society, and concentrates on the latter, tracing the historical causes for its gradual abandonment of the ideology of the final aim in favour of a permanent co-existence with capitalism-the revis…
Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism
What has brought about the widespread public provision of welfare and income security within free-market liberalism? Some social scientists have regarded welfare as a preindustrial atavism; others, as a functional requirement of industrial society. Most recently, scholars have stressed the reformist actions of center-left parties during the decades following World War II, the workings of new post-industrial politics lately, and a multifaceted rol…
Mona Lisa
Why is the Mona Lisa the most famous painting in the world? No other painting in the world is recognized so instantly as ‘art’. This article examines the causes of this notoriety: the originality of the painting was recognized by Leonardo's contemporaries; it became part of a royal collection (that of the King of France); it was in Paris, the main artistic centre of the nineteenth century, in a publicly accessible museum, the Louvre; it was regar…
On Cultural Markets
The ‘culture industry’ has typically been conceived as a unified, twentieth-century branch of production. Donald Sassoon reveals older, more variegated patterns of development, tracing international relations of cultural dominance from Scott and Verdi to the action movie
Life after Death
This collection of essays offers a novel approach to the cultural and social history of Europe after the Second World War. In a shift of perspective, it does not conceive of the impressive economic and political stability of the postwar era as a quasi-natural return to previous patterns of societal development but approaches it as an attempt to establish 'normality' upon the lingering memories of experiencing violence on a hitherto unprecedented …
From Buddenbrooks to Babbitt
Donald Sassoon on Victoria de Grazia, Irresistible Empire: America’s Advance Through 20th-Century Europe. How the US reshaped European ideals of consumption and culture, from the stately world of Thomas Mann to that of McDonald’s and José Bové. All the way from the club to the kitchen, learning from Duluth and San Bernardino
The Culture of the Europeans
A magisterial narrative account of the creation and consumption of all forms of 'culture' across the European continent over the last two hundred years. This compelling, wide-ranging and hugely ambitious book offers, for the first time ever, an integrated history of the culture produced and consumed by Europeans since 1800, and follows its transformation from an elite activity to a mass market -- from lending libraries to the internet, from the f…
Povera Italia
One hundred years of socialism
Political science (33 works) · Law (27 works) · Politics (27 works) · Law (20 works) · Sociology (15 works) · History (13 works) · Citation (11 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (11 works) · Library science (9 works)