EAN: 9781780225616

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

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 begin with the footsteps of a family walking along a beach 950 000 years ago. From here Montefiore takes us on an exhilarating epic journey through the families that have shaped our world: 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. A rich cast of complex characters form the beating heart of the story. Some are well-known leaders from Alexander the Great Attila Ivan the Terrible and Genghis Khan to Hitler Thatcher Obama Putin and Zelensky. Some are creative from Socrates Michelangelo and Shakespeare to Newton Mozart Balzac Freud Bowie and Tim Berners-Lee. Others are lesser-known: Hongwu who began life as a beggar and founded the Ming dynasty Kamehameha conqueror of Hawaii Zenobia Arab empress who defied Rome King Henry of Haiti Lady Murasaki first female novelist Sayyida al-Hurra Moroccan pirate-queen. Here are not just conquerors and queens but prophets charlatans actors gangsters artists scientists doctors tycoons lovers wives husbands and children. This is world history on the most grand and intimate scale - spanning centuries continents and cultures and linking grand themes of war migration plague religion medicine and technology to the people at the centre of the human drama. As spellbinding as fiction The World captures the story of humankind in all its joy sorrow romance ingenuity and cruelty in a ground-breaking single narrative that will forever shift the boundaries of what history can achieve.

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