{"product_id":"the-world-a-family-history-of-humanity-9780525659532","title":"The World: A Family History of Humanity","description":"\u003cp\u003eNEW 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  A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker  Smithsonian  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 worlds 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45960481505333,"sku":"ByrdShop_0525659536","price":51.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780525659532.jpg?v=1788288548","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-world-a-family-history-of-humanity-9780525659532","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}