Publishers Weekly - Best Books of the Year (Nonfiction) Longlisted - Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction New York Times Book Review - Editors\' Choice "A stunning work of global history.
A tour de force." --Greg Grandin. . . .
Alan Mikhail offers a bold and thoroughly convincing new way to think about the origins of the Modern world. . . .
Publishers Weekly - Best Books of the Year (Nonfiction) Longlisted - Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction New York Times Book Review - Editors\' Choice "A stunning work of global history