Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones

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Dan Jones’s epic 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 16th 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. ‘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.