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Rosemary Wakeman is professor of history at Fordham University. She is the author of A Modern History of European Cities: 1815 to the Present as well as The Heroic City: Paris, 1945–1958 and Practicing Utopia: An Intellectual History of the New Town Movement, the latter two also published by the University of Chicago Press
“Wakeman is a historian at the top of her game. From the career of the international businessman Victor Sassoon between the world wars, she spins a tale of three cities and the myriad networks of trade, finance, and society that connected them. Mixing urban history, business history, and biography, this book is at once a story of empire and wealth as well as one of migration, poverty, strikes, and war. If you are looking for an imaginative take on global urban history, this is a wonderful place to start.” * Simon Gunn, author of Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan * “Following the life of Victor Sassoon, this engaging and accessible book successfully argues that the interwar period in the first decade of the twentieth century was when large cities around the world became intricately connected through the circulation of global capital.” * Toby Lincoln, author of An Urban History of China * “Wakeman brings imperial economic history to life, interweaving brilliant cultural analysis with lively stories of men, money, and markets. The result is a tour de force of global urban history during the interwar period.” * Lynn Hollen Lees, author of Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects * ""In The Worlds of Victor Sassoon, Rosemary Wakeman explores the urban spaces and economies of Bombay, London, and Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s. This elegantly written work depicts a world where globalization, seething political ferment, and technological change created instability and strife – and handsome profits for a lucky few."" * History Today *
