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Articles by Donald Sassoon
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Eric Hobsbawm, 1917–2012
in NLR 77, September-October 2012, pp. 35-42
Subjects: Communist Movement , History and Historiography
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.
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From Buddenbrooks to Babbitt?
in NLR 36, November-December 2005, pp. 141-148
Subjects: History and Historiography , United States , Europe
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.
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On Cultural Markets
in NLR 17, September-October 2002, pp. 113-126
Subjects: Cinema , Literature , World Economy and Globalization
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.
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Fin-de-Siecle Socialism: The United, Modest Left
in NLR I/227, January-February 1998, pp. 88-96
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy
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