From the author of "The Embarrassment of Riches", this is a history of the French Revolution. At the heart of this account is the story of the transformation of "subjects" to "citizens". The author aims to show a France infatuated with novelty and technology in the midst of dramatic economic change. The darkening of the original euphoric vision of ...
The book that first made Simon Schama's reputation when first published in 1987. This historical masterpiece is an epic account of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age of Rembrandt and van Diemen. 'This is history in the same spirit as Braudel, Ginzburg, Ladurie and Le Goff. It seems to me that Schama is one of the few historians writing in English ...
Tens of thousands of blacks in America at the start of the Revolutionary War escaped from farms, plantations, and cities to reach the British who offered the promise of emancipation in return for military service. Schama follows their odyssey through the war and into inhospitable Nova Scotia where thousands were betrayed.
In November 2008 the United States will elect a new President. But the imminent collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination about the trajectory of its history; how it came to find itself in multiple crises and how an America that began as 'the last, best hope of earth' ...
Simon Schama takes on the 'cultural psychology of nature.' He analyzes the history of the relationship between humans and nature, primarily through a survey of European art and mythology. The dark woods of fairy tales and modern urban parks are both repositories for our fears, dreams, and wishes, and the Western traditions towards nature are not ...
"Great art has dreadful manners," Simon Schama observes wryly at the start of his epic and explosive exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. "The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things; visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the ...
From the author of the bestselling The Embarrassment of Riches comes an original and electrifyingly new narrative account of the French Revolution. 75 illustrations. Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution.
Simon Schama, the author of "The Embarrassment of Riches" and "Citizens", sets out to tell the history of two certainties, of two deaths. In discussing the "speculations" surrounding them, he finds himself involved in a history he cannot classify - the unpredictable history of stories. On 13 September 1759, General James Wolfe, having led the ...
In this lavishly illustrated biography of 17th-century master Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch historian Simon Schama provides a factual account of the artist's personal and professional life that reads like a historical novel. In addition to providing interpretations of paintings, Schama recreates the world in which Rembrandt lived to illuminate the ...
This sequel to THE CREATION OF THE MODERN WORLD: THE BRITISH ENLIGHTENMENT focuses on the emergence of the concept of the personal during the 18th century. Taking into account such writers of the time as Swift, Gibbon, Sterne, and Johnson, Roy Porter explores the changes in the intellectual climate of the day that led to a de-emphasis on the body ...
To understand what Britain has become it is necessary to know what it has been. The second volume in this history takes the story of Britain from the Civil War to the Enlightenment. Each chapter focuses on a major theme.
Schama concludes his epic history of Britain in this third volume. He begins in 1776, and covers the spread of the British Empire and its eventual demise after two world wars. He then brings Britain up to the new millennium, a time for looking back and assessing its impact.
History in Quotations is an exciting and original work of historical reference. From the Iraq of ancient Babylon to the Iraq war of 2003 - taking in the histories of Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia in a grand global sweep - it uses the innovative medium of some 9000 chronologically arranged quotations to tell the story of more than 5000 ...
A timely reissue of Simon Schama's landmark study of the Netherlands from 1780--1813, this is a tale of a once-powerful nation's desparate struggle to survive the treacheries and brutality of European war and politics. Between 1780 and 1813 the Dutch Republic -- a country once rich enough to be called the cash till of Europe and powerful enough to ...
In this panoramic history of the British Isles, the celebrated historian Simon Schama draws on pre-history, myths, legends, and recorded history to provide a sweeping overview of the isolated land mass--including the arrival of settlers, tribal warfare, the rise of civilization, civil and religious strife, and its climb to a position in the ...
Pre-eminent author and art historian Simon Schama has written widely on art for many years to great acclaim. In "Hang-Ups", a personal selection of his articles from, amongst others, "The New Yorker", appears in Britain for the very first time. Brilliantly and lucidly written by one of the most singular voices in non-fiction, this volume of ...
Tens of thousands of blacks in America at the start of the Revolutionary War escaped from farms, plantations, and cities to reach the British who offered the promise of emancipation in return for military service. Schama follows their odyssey through the war and into inhospitable Nova Scotia where thousands were betrayed.
A collection of first-person accounts, from the Greeks through the 20th century, that describe historical events which were interpreted by people as signalling the end of the world.
Simon Schama, the author of "The Embarrassment of Riches" and "Citizens", sets out to tell the history of two certainties, of two deaths. In discussing the "speculations" surrounding them, he finds himself involved in a history he cannot classify - the unpredictable history of stories. On 13 September 1759, General James Wolfe, having led the ...
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