Saltar al contenido principal
The World

The World

A Family History Of Humanity

Simon Sebag Montefiore

"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 YearAround 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 ...

Editorial:
Dutton
Año de edición:
2023
ISBN:
978-0-525-65953-2
Páginas:
1344
Q. 460
IVA incluido
Único ejemplar, sujeto
a disponibilidad
Añadir a favoritos Avisar disponibilidad

Sinopsis

"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.

Artículos relacionados

The Great Resistance

The Great Resistance

Carrie Gibson

For more than four centuries, enslaved people across the Americas, from the United States and the Caribbean to Brazil, fought any way they could to gain their freedom. For the first time, their dramatic stories are gathered in one sweeping narrative that offers a message of inspiration in our own time. "Among the emancipators are the millions whose stories will never be known. ...

Disponible

Q. 330

Radical Cartography

Radical Cartography

William Rankin

"This is it: the full download from a true genius of cartography. Radical Cartography will make you see maps, and, indeed, your place on the planet, with fresh eyes."—Daniel Immerwahr, author of How to Hide an Empire. A stunning, thought-provoking exploration of how maps shape our understanding of the world—featuring over 150 full-color maps in a gorgeous packageMaps are ubiqui...

Único ejemplar, sujeto
a disponibilidad

Q. 260

Destiny Disrupted

Destiny Disrupted

Ansary, Tamim

"A must read for anyone who wants to learn more about the history of the Islamic world" (San Francisco Chronicle) We in the West share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civilization whose citizens shared an entirely different narrative for a thousand years as the Islamic world saw it, from the time of Mohammed through the fall of the Ot...

Disponible

Q. 230

On Antisemitism

On Antisemitism

Mark Mazower

From one of our most eminent historians, a penetrating and timely examination of how the meaning of antisemitism has mutated, with unexpected and troubling consequencesWhat are we talking about when we talk about antisemitism? For most of its history it was understood to be a menace from the political Right, the province of ethno-nativists who built on Christendom's long-standi...

Disponible

Q. 270

History Matters

History Matters

David Mccullough

In this posthumous collection of thought-provoking essays—many never published before—Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and bestselling author David McCullough affirms the value of history, how we can be guided by its lessons, and the enduring legacy of American ideals.History Matters brings together selected essays by beloved historian David McCullough, some published here for ...

Disponible

Q. 270

The Devil Reached Toward The Sky

The Devil Reached Toward The Sky

Garrett Graff

On the eightieth anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, the Pulitzer Prize finalist whose work is "oral history at its finest" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) delivers an epic narrative of the atomic bomb's creation and deployment, woven from the voices of hundreds of scientists, generals, soldiers, and civilians.The building of the atomic bomb is the most audacious unde...

Disponible

Q. 325

Otros libros del autor

El Mundo

El Mundo

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Hace unos 950.000 años, una familia de cinco personas caminó por una playa y dejó las huellas familiares más antiguas jamás descubiertas. Para Simon Sebag Montefiore estos fósiles sirven como inspiración para una nueva historia mundial, una que es genuinamente global a la vez que íntima, que abarca siglos, continentes y culturas y se centra en los lazos familiares que nos conec...

No disponible

Q. 400

Escrito en la Historia

Escrito en la Historia

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Escrito en la historia conmemora las mayores y más importantes cartas del panorama político, cultural, artístico, o de la vida privada de aquellos personajes célebres que influyeron en el devenir de nuestra historia. El aclamado historiador Simon Sebag Montefiore ha seleccionado más de cien cartas que van desde la Antigüedad, como la que dirigió Marco Antonio a Octavio Augusto ...

No disponible

Q. 220

Escrito en la Historia

Escrito en la Historia

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Escrito en la historia conmemora las mayores y más importantes cartas del panorama político, cultural, artístico, o de la vida privada de aquellos personajes célebres que influyeron en el devenir de nuestra historia. El aclamado historiador Simon Sebag Montefiore ha seleccionado más de cien cartas que van desde la Antigüedad, como la que dirigió Marco Antonio a Octavio Augusto ...

No disponible

Q. 365

Los Románov

Los Románov

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Los Románov gobernaron Rusia como zares y emperadores durante trescientos años. A través de la fuerza implacable de su personalidad, esta familia de peculiares pero brillantes autócratas transformó un reino débil y arruinado por la guerra civil en un imperio que dominó Europa. Pedro el Grande, el tirano borracho y asesino, gigante físicamente y reformador político; y Catalina l...

No disponible

Q. 300

Los Románov

Los Románov

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Los Románov gobernaron Rusia como zares y emperadores durante trescientos años. A través de la fuerza implacable de su personalidad, esta familia de peculiares pero brillantes autócratas transformó un reino débil y arruinado por la guerra civil en un imperio que dominó Europa. Pedro el Grande, el tirano borracho y asesino, gigante físicamente y reformador político; y Catalina l...

No disponible

Q. 425

Titanes de la Historia

Titanes de la Historia

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Simon Sebag Montefiore, uno de los más eminentes historiadores británicos, nos presenta las vidas de los gigantes que, para bien o para mal, han hecho nuestro mundo, en un reparto que va de conquistadores, poetas, reyes, emperatrices y prostitutas a psicópatas, compositores y exploradores; figuras como Tamerlán, el señor de la guerra mongol que, en el siglo XIV ordenó la constr...

No disponible

Q. 250