Donald Sassoon was born in Cairo and was educated in Paris, Milan, London and the USA. He is the author of a number of books on Italian history and of One Hundred Years of Socialism (winner of the Deutscher Prize 1996), Mona Lisa and The Culture of the Europeans. His books have been translated into fourteen languages. He obtained his first degree in 1969 from University College London, his MA from the Pennsylvania State University, and his PhD from Birkbeck College. He taught at Westfield College, University of London until its merger with Queen Mary. He has lectured at universities throughout Europe and North America and is frequently interviewed by British, Italian and American media. In 1999 he was Visiting Professor at the University of Trento, Italy. During 2000-01 he was a Senior Research Fellow at New York University and during 2002 he was Senior Research Fellow at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris. He is currently Professor of Comparative European History at Queen Mary, University of London.
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