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The World: A Family History of Humanity

bySimon Sebag Montefiore

Simon Sebag Montefiore narrates world history through families: dynasties, households, marriages, rival siblings, adopted heirs, enslaved people, and chosen kin. Moving across continents and from prehistory to the present, he connects private relationships with empires, religions, migrations, wars, revolutions, commerce, and cultural exchange. Famous ruling houses appear beside families whose lives reveal wider structures of power and survival. The approach makes global history intimate without reducing it to genealogy, showing how love, ambition, inheritance, loyalty, and betrayal have repeatedly shaped institutions and linked distant societies.

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9780525659532