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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Sebag Montefiore, Simon, 1965- author.     Subjects     Royal houses -- Anecdotes.     World history -- Anecdotes.     Upper class -- Biography -- Anecdotes.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Sebag Montefiore, Simon, 1965- author.       by title:      The world : a family...         MARC Display

The world : a family history of humanity / Simon Sebag Montefiore. by Sebag Montefiore, Simon, 1965- author. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. Subjects Royal houses -- Anecdotes.   World history -- Anecdotes.   Upper class -- Biography -- Anecdotes. ISBN:  9780525659532 (hardcover) : 0525659536 (hardcover) : Description:  xl, 1304 pages : maps ; 25 cm Edition:  First American edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  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."-- Publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 929.7 Se Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 929.7 Sebag Checked In   Add Copy to MyList CLOSED TEMPORARILY: Honokaa Public Library Adult Nonfiction 929.7 Sebag Montefiore Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kailua Public Library Adult New Books 929.7 Se Checked out 05/24/2024 Add Copy to MyList Kalihi-Palama Public Library Adult Nonfiction 929.7 Se Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 929.7 Se Transit   Add Copy to MyList McCully-Moiliili Public Library Adult Nonfiction 929.7 Se Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 929.7 Se Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Naalehu Public Library Adult Nonfiction 929.7 Se Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Pahoa P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 929.7 Se Checked out 05/24/2024 Add Copy to MyList

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