The world

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A magisterial world history unlike any other that tells the story of humanity through the one thing we all have in common: families • From the author of The Romanovs

“Succession meets Game of Thrones.” —The Spectator • “The author brings his cast of dynastic titans, rogues and psychopaths to life...An epic that both entertains and informs.” — The Economist, Best Books of the Year

Around 950,000 years ago, a family of five walked along the beach and left behind the oldest family footprints ever discovered. For award-winning historian Simon Sebag Montefiore, these poignant, familiar fossils serve as an inspiration for a new kind of world history, one that is genuinely global, spans all eras and all continents, and focuses on the family ties that connect every one of us.

In this epic, ever-surprising book, Montefiore chronicles the world’s great dynasties across human history through palace intrigues, love affairs, and family lives, linking grand themes of war, migration, plague, religion, and technology to the people at the heart of the human drama.

It features a cast of extraordinary diversity: in addition to rulers and conquerors, there are priests, charlatans, artists, scientists, tycoons, gangsters, lovers, husbands, wives, and children. There is Hongwu, the beggar who founded the Ming dynasty; Ewuare, the Leopard-King of Benin; Henry Christophe, King of Haiti; Kamehameha, the conqueror of Hawaii; Zenobia, the Arab empress who defied Rome; Lady Murasaki, the first female novelist; Sayyida al-Hurra, the Moroccan pirate-queen. Here too are moderns such as Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin, and Volodymyr Zelensky. Here are the Caesars, Medicis and Incas, Ottomans and Mughals, Bonapartes, Habsburgs and Zulus, Rothschilds, Rockefellers and Krupps, Churchills, Kennedys, Castros, Nehrus, Pahlavis and Kenyattas, Saudis, Kims and Assads.

These powerful families represent the breadth of human endeavor, with bloody succession battles, treacherous conspiracies, and shocking megalomania alongside flourishing culture, moving romances, and enlightened benevolence. A dazzling achievement as spellbinding as fiction, The World captures the whole human story in a single, masterful narrative.

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The World

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A thrilling epic and original history of humanity from a dazzlingly fresh and global perspective from the prize winning bestselling historian simon sebag montefiore Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 uur besteld, donderdag in huis .. MEER INFO

The World

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The times history book of the year one of the economist s best books of the year a sunday times bestseller from the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day told through the one thing all humans have in common family we b Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

De wereld

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 16 mei 2023

Aantal pagina's: 1344

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Simon Sebag Montefiore

Hoofduitgeverij: Alfred A. Knopf

Product breedte: 165 mm

Product hoogte: 66 mm

Product lengte: 241 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 165 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 94 mm

Verpakking lengte: 238 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 3073 g

EAN: 9780525659532

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