The World - Simon Sebag Montefiore Gebunden

The World by Simon Sebag Montefiore is a fresh new history of the world, told through families. It begins with the first human footsteps ever found: a family of five, an adult and four children, walking along a beach 950,000 years ago. This is a history of deep themes - religion, empire, technology, ideology - but tethered to the biography of families at the heart of the essential drama of human existence. All life, every race and faith, is here, a study of interconnectivity and hybridity. The families in this book are African, Asian, European, American, Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic, Jewish, Chris tian: they ruled kingdoms from Benin and Rome, Mali to Beijing, Cairo to Tokyo, Angkor to Constantinople. We meet the families of Genghis Khan and the Caesars, the Ottomans and Habsburgs, the Ethiopian Solomonids and Japanese Sun lineages, the Medici, the Incas, the Saudis, Castros and Rothschilds, right up to the Assads and Kims, the Kennedys, Bushes and the Obamas. The World is the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, examining power, literature, war, art, science and daily life, and features the lives of a stunningly eclectic cast of the unknown and the great, each of whom are connected in a multitude of ways. Montefiore weaves a compelling narrative introducing the reader to the exuberance, ingenuity, idiosyncrasy, cruelty and misery of human experience, the variety of character and of culture, and presents the history of the world in all its complexity as no writer has done before. EAN: 9780297869672 Farbverschnitt: Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. Erscheinungsjahr: 2022 Produktform: Leinen, Gebunden Autoren: Montefiore, Simon Sebag Abbildungen: Two lavish maps as endpapers Themenüberschrift: HISTORY / General Keyword: politics; Sapiens; biography; military history; political history; royals; world war two; second world war; history; Africa; world history; global history; Jerusalem; Jerusalem the biography; The Romanovs; Romanovs; Stalin; Young Stalin; Catherine the Great; The Great; The Silk Roads; Peter Frankopan; Yuval Noah Harari; Prisoners of Geogrpahy; Tim Marshall; Middle East; European History; family history; biographies; royal family; world war one; first world war; history of civilisation and culture; travel writing; simon sebag montefiore; bestseller; prize winning author; books about humanity; family drama; power struggle; war; dynasty; unlikely stories; women rulers; womens history Fachschema: Englische Bücher / Geschichte, Kulturgeschichte, Zeitgeschichte~Geschichte / Weltgeschichte~Universalgeschichte~Weltgeschichte Imprint-Titels: Weidenfeld and Nicholson Fachkategorie: Geschichte Text Sprache: eng Seitenanzahl: XL, 1304 Verlag: Orion Publishing Group Länge: 241 mm Breite: 162 mm Höhe: 66 mm Gewicht: 1415 gr Genre: Importe Herkunftsland: GROSSBRITANNIEN (GB)