{"product_id":"the-world-a-family-history-of-humanity","title":"The World: A Family History of Humanity","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER \u003c\/b\u003e• 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\u003ci\u003e The Romanovs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eA Best Book of the Year: \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, Smithsonian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSuccession\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eGame of Thrones\u003c\/i\u003e.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e • “The author brings his cast of dynastic titans, rogues and psychopaths to life...An epic that both entertains and informs.” —\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Economist, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eBest Books of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAround 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese 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, \u003ci\u003eThe World\u003c\/i\u003e captures the whole human story in a single, masterful narrative.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Couverture rigide","offer_id":46718959222994,"sku":"9780525659532","price":60.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Livre numérique Kobo","offer_id":46718959255762,"sku":"582edd2e-b042-314b-a6d2-093e64744fd2","price":18.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Couverture souple","offer_id":46797162283218,"sku":"9780593082744","price":48.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/image_a2d8dc4e-7a26-447a-b79e-8b8ad012e3d2.jpg?v=1771961996","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/fr\/products\/the-world-a-family-history-of-humanity","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}