The instant Sunday Times bestseller A Times, New Statesman and
Spectator Book of the Year 'Simply the best popular history of the
Middle Ages there is' Sunday Times 'A great achievement, pulling
together many strands with aplomb' Peter Frankopan, Spectator, Books
of the Year 'It's so delightful to encounter a skilled historian of
such enormous energy who's never afraid of being entertaining' The
Times, Books of the Year 'An amazing masterly gripping panorama' Simon
Sebag Montefiore 'A badass history writer... to put it mildly' Duff
McKagan 'A triumph' Charles Spencer Dan Jones's epic new history tells
nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be
built. It is a thousand-year adventure that moves from the ruins of
the once-mighty city of Rome, sacked by barbarians in AD 410, to the
first contacts between the old and new worlds in the sixteenth
century. It shows how, from a state of crisis and collapse, the West
was rebuilt and came to dominate the entire globe. The book identifies
three key themes that underpinned the success of the West: commerce,
conquest and Christianity. Across 16 chapters, blending Dan Jones's
trademark gripping narrative style with authoritative analysis, Powers
and Thrones shows how, at each stage in this story, successive western
powers thrived by attracting – or stealing – the most valuable
resources, ideas and people from the rest of the world. It casts new
light on iconic locations – Rome, Paris, Venice, Constantinople –
and it features some of history's most famous and notorious men and
women. This is a book written about – and for – an age of profound
change, and it asks the biggest questions about the West both then and
now. Where did we come from? What made us? Where do we go from here?
Also available in audio, read by the author.
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ISBN
9781789543551
Publisert
2023
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Apollo
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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