Dan Jones
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
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ExcellentDan Jones' epic new history, "Powers and Thrones," spans 1,000 years and explores how the West was rebuilt and dominated the globe. It identifies three key themes: commerce, conquest, and Christianity, and shows how successive western powers thrived by attracting valuable resources, ideas, and people from the rest of the world. The book is a triumph and asks the biggest questions about the West both then and now.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 736 pages
Publication date: 14 April 2022
Publisher: Head of Zeus
Powers and Thrones: A History of the American Empire
A Triumph of History
By Dan Jones
Reviewed by:
The Sunday Times
New Statesman
Spectator
Book of the Year
Simply the Best Popular History of the Middle Ages
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
Weight: 528g
Dan Jones' epic new history, "Powers and Thrones: A History of the American Empire," 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' 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?
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Dimension: 130 x 198 x 53 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781789543544
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