Dominion

The Sunday Times bestseller, with a new introduction by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If great books encourage you to look at the world in an entirely new way, then Dominion is a very great book indeed Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times History Book of the Year
Terrific: bold, ambitious and passionate Peter Frankopan

Dominion tells the epic story of how those in the West came to be what they are, and why they think the way they do. Ranging from Moses to Merkel, from Babylon to Beverley Hills, from the emergence of secularism to the abolition of slavery, it explores why, in a society that has become increasingly doubtful of religions claims, so many of its instincts remain irredeemably Christian. Christianitys enduring impact is not confined to churches. It can be seen everywhere in the West: in science, in secularism, in gay rights, even in atheism. It is - to coin a phrase - the greatest story ever told.

PRAISE FOR DOMINION
A masterpiece of scholarship and storytellingJohn Gray, New Statesman
Filled with vivid portraits, gruesome deaths and moral debates... Holland has all the talents of an accomplished novelistTerry Eagleton, Guardian
This extraordinary book is vintage Tom Holland: history boldly and elegantly retoldDiarmaid MacCulloch