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A History of Britain
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The second volume of Schama's panoramic history of Britain begins with the death of Elizabeth Iand charts the rise of the British Empire.
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Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
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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 ...
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Landscape and Memory
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Simon Schama
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Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
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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.
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The Power of Art
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"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 ...
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The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
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Citizens
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Simon Schama
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.
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Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations
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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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Rembrandt's Eyes
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Simon Schama
For Rembrandt, as for Shakespeare, all the world was indeed a stage, and he knew in exhaustive detail the tactics of its performance: the strutting and mincing, the wardrobe and face-paint, the full repertoire and gesture and gimace, the flutter of hands and the roll of the eyes, the belly-laugh and the half-stifled sob. He knew what it looked ...
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Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul
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Dr. Roy Porter, Simon Schama (Foreword by)
How did we come to a modern understanding of our bodies and souls? What were the breakthroughs that allowed human beings to see themselves in a new light? Starting with the revolutionary ideas of the Renaissance that challenged the sense of the body as a corrupt vessel for the soul, Roy Porter goes on to chart how - through figures as diverse as ...
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Patriots and Liberators: Revolution in the Netherlands 1780-1813
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Simon Schama
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 ...
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A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World 3500 B.C. - 1603 A.D.
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Simon Schama
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History of Britain, a - Volume III: The Fate of the Empire 1776 - 2000
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Simon Schama
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.
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Embarrasmnt of Riches
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Schama's history of 17th-century Dutch culture considers Dutch society in all its facets, including painting, food, and the Dutch Reformed Church.
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Embarrassment of Riches
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Schama's history of 17th-century Dutch culture considers Dutch society in all its facets, including painting, food, and the Dutch Reformed Church.
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The History of Britain, Vol. 1
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Schama
Change - sometimes gentle and subtle sometimes shocking and violent - is the dynamic of Schama's unapologetically personal, grippingly written history, especially the changes that wash over custom and habit, transforming our loyalties. At the heart of his history lies a question of compelling importance for our future as well as our past: what ...
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Cy Twombly: Fifty Years of Works on Paper
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Cy Twombly, Simon Schama, Whitney Museum of American Art
Edited by Julie Sylvester. Texts by Roland Barthes and Simon Schama. Foreword by Adam D. Weinberg.
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History in Quotations: Reflecting 5000 Years of World History
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M J Cohen, John Major, Simon Schama (Foreword by)
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The End of the World
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Lewis H Lapman (Editor), Simon Schama (Introduction by)
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.
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Dead certainties : (unwarranted speculations)
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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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Two Rothschilds and the Land of Israel
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Rough Crossings
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Simon Schama, Caryl Philips (Adapted by)
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.
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The Cambridge mind: ninety years of the Cambridge Review, 1879-1969
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Eric Homberger (Compiled by), William Janeway, Simon Schama
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Hang-Ups: a Collection of Essays on Art
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Simon Schama
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 ...
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Jews America: A Representation
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Frederic Brenner (Photographer), Simon Schama
For many years, French photographer Frederic Brenner has travelled the world, documenting the lives of Jews on five continents to create a visual anthology of the Jewish diaspora. This book chronicles the American portion of his odyssey, recording the extraodinary diversity of Jewish life in large cities and small communities in 32 states. He ...
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