Simon Schama
ISBN:9780563536352
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9780786867523
"Great Britain? What was that?" asks Simon Schama at the start of this, the second of his three-volume journey into Britain's past. The answer unravels in The Wars of the British -- a compelling chronicle of the changes that transformed every strand and strata of British life...
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9780099520399
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...
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9781847920010
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...
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9781847920003
Acclaimed historian and award-winning author Simon Schama offers an essential historical perspective on the crucial 2008 presidential election and its importance for reclaiming America's original ideal.
It's not business as usual. Cultural hostilities more irreconcilable than any since the Civil War have divided America in two. In November 2008...
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ISBN:9780786101559
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ISBN:9780786101566
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9780679726104
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9780141017273
The most authoritative social, cultural and narrative history of the French Revolution, and one of the great landmarks of modern history publishing. "Monumental...provocative and stylish...
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9783829601818
Cy Twombly is undoubtedly the most sensitive mind among the greats of contemporary art. His work finds its most personal expression in the small...
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9781862071353
Through these incidents, Schama sheds light on the writing of history, the history of history, and the relationship of "story" to "history"....
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9780679736134
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9781409073581
Contains provocative and often idiosyncratic essays that makes hugely satisfying reading for lovers of both art and social history. This work contains pieces on artists as diverse as David Hockney...
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9780563522898
From the author whose writing has been called sublime and whose ability to bring art and history vividly to life has earned him admiration worldwide...
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9780563521730
From the author whose writing has been called sublime and whose ability to bring art and history vividly to life has earned him admiration worldwide...
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9780563487142
Change - sometimes gentle and subtle sometimes shocking and violent - is the dynamic of Schama's unapologetically personal history, especially the changes that wash over custom and habit...
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9780563487180
Change, sometimes gentle and subtle, more often shocking and violent - shattering ideals and shifting perspectives - is again the dynamic of this...
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9780563537472
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...
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9780563487197
Britain never had the kind of revolution experienced by France in 1789, but it did come close. In the mid-1770s the country was intoxicated by a great surge of political energy. Re-discovering England's wildernesses...
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9780563534570
This work takes us from the mid-1770s when the country was intoxicated by a great surge of political energy through to the massive advances of technology and industrialisation during the Victoria era...
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9780563384977
Change - sometimes gentle and subtle sometimes shocking and violent - is the dynamic of Schama's unapologetically personal, grippingly written history...
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9780006863489
The forest primeval, the river of life, the sacred mount -- read Landscape and Memory to have these explained...'One of the most intelligent...
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9780679735120
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9783865609823
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9780563487104
'Great art has dreadful manners...' Simon Schama observes at the start of his epic exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. 'The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things...
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9780140288414
But this book moves far beyond the bounds of conventional biography or art history. With imaginative sympathy, and based on his profound knowledge of Holland and the Dutch in the 17th century...
Format:Paperback Pages:768
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9780713993844
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...
Format:Hardback Pages:768
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9781409018629
Tells the story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence....
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9780563493655
"Rough Crossings" is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping...
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9780563487098
Although the extraordinary story that unfolds in Rough Crossings would ultimately prove to be bitterly tragic, it was not without its moments of redemption...
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9780060539177
If you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, which side would you want to win?
When the last British governor of Virginia declared that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the king would be emancipated...
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9780061137020
"Rough Crossings" turns on a single huge question: if you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, who would you want to win?
Tens of thousands gave their answer...
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9780099546658
Passionate, provocative, entertaining and informative, Scribble, Scribble, Scribble ranges far and wide: from cookery and family to Barack Obama...
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9781409018650
Covers the topics that range from cookery and family to Barack Obama, from preaching and Shakespeare to Victorian sages, from Charlotte Rampling and Hurricane Katrina to 'The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of The Osbournes'....
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9780062009869
The "New York Times" has hailed renowned historian and social commentator Simon Schama as a writer who "entwine s] past and present into a meaningful...
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9780062009876
"Schama is a masterful stylist and storyteller."
--Boston Globe
"A writer of gorgeous prose."
--Washington Post
The ever erudite...
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9781409018797
Deals with the issues facing Americans - the projection of power ('American war'); race, immigration and the problematic promise of e pluribus unum ('American skin'); the intensity of religious conviction in public life ('American fervour'); and...
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9780061669071
The acclaimed historian and award-winning author offers an essential, historical, outsider's perspective on the crucial 2008 presidential election and its importance for reclaiming America's original ideal...
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9780060539238
Acclaimed historian and award-winning author Simon Schama offers an essential historical perspective on the crucial 2008 presidential election and its importance for reclaiming America's original ideal.
It's not business as usual. Cultural hostilities more irreconcilable than any since the Civil War have divided America in two. In November 2008...
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9780060539245
Nothing that has happened since the inauguration of Barack Obama has dispelled the sense that the election of 2008 was the kind of moment of truth in American politics and history that seldom comes along. Simon Schama...
Format:Paperback Pages:400
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9780141022406
Simon Schama is famous as one of the UK's greatest popularizers of history, whose books and TV series have enthralled huge audiences through their gripping storytelling....
Format:Paperback / softback Pages:64
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9780679781240
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9780061176104
"Great art has dreadful manners," Simon Schama observes wryly at the start of his epic and explosive exploration of the power, and whole point...
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Simon Schama
ISBN:9781847921185
Tamara Drewe has transformed herself. Plastic surgery, a different wardrobe, a smouldering look, have given her confidence and a new and thrilling power to attract...
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Simon Schama;Stephen Thorne
ISBN:9780754094890
"Great Britain? What was that?" asks Simon Schama at the start of this, the second book of his epic three-volume journey into Britain's past. This volume is a compelling chronicle of the changes that transformed every strand and stratum of British life...
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Simon Schama;Stephen Thorne
ISBN:9780754084785
"Great Britain? What was that?" asks Simon Schama at the start of this, the second book of his epic three-volume journey into Britain's past. This volume is a compelling chronicle of the changes that transformed every strand and stratum of British life...
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Simon Schama;Stephen Thorne
ISBN:9780792733799
The Fate of Empire tells the eventful and exhilarating story of Britain's rise and fall as an imperial power, from the political turmoil of the 1770s to the struggle of present day leaders to forge a prosperous national future. The volume also examines the Romantic generation...
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Simon Schama;Stephen Thorne
ISBN:9780792733805
The Fate of Empire tells the eventful and exhilarating story of Britain's rise and fall as an imperial power, from the political turmoil of the 1770s to the struggle of present day leaders to forge a prosperous national future. The volume also examines the Romantic generation...
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Simon Schama;Stephen Thorne
ISBN:9780754087809
Change is at the heart of this first volume of Schama's unapologetically personal and grippingly written history. He poses questions of compelling importance...
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Simon Schama;Stephen Thorne
ISBN:9780754083870
Change is at the heart of this first volume of Schama's unapologetically personal and grippingly written history. He poses questions of compelling importance...
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ISBN:9781559276368
The epic history of Britain from the landmark book and monumental, 14-part television series airing on the History channel Simon Schama, one the most celebrated historians of our day...
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ISBN:9781559276375
The second volume of Simon Schama's acclaimed history of Britain, a magnificent companion to the History Channel's successful seriesSimon Schama...
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ISBN:9781559277662
Simon Schama's dramatic, broad ranging, and immensely engaging history of Britain reaches its triumphant conclusion in this final volume, which stretches from the American Revolution to the present.Despite being the first industrial society...
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Charles Dickens;Simon Schama
ISBN:9780679420736
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
"A Tale of Two Cities" begins on a muddy English road in an atmosphere charged with mystery and drama, and it ends in the Paris of the French Revolution with one of the most famous acts of self-sacrifice in literature. In between lies one of Charles Dickens's most exciting books- a historical novel that...
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Charles Dickens;Simon Schama
ISBN:9780679729655
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity...
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Roy Porter;Simon Schama
ISBN:9780393326963
In this "readable and humane book" ("Los Angeles Times Book Review"), the late historian Roy Porter traces the course of man's philosophical journey from the superstitious...
Format:Paperback Pages:592
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Roy Porter;Simon Schama
ISBN:9780393050752
The culmination of a lifelong interest in the metaphysics of the body by the premier social historian of medicine. HOW DID WE COME to a modern understanding of our bodies and souls...
Format:Hardcover Pages:660
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Simon Schama;Colin Moorhouse PaulWiggins
ISBN:9781857093858
John Virtue was invited to become the sixth National Gallery Associate Artist because of his deep-rooted relationship with the great European landscape tradition that is magnificently represented in the museum's collection. Working in the National Gallery's studio...
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ISBN:9780786102303
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Simon Schama;Caryl Philips
ISBN:9781840028041
Simon Schama's extraordinary novel in a new stage adaptation by Caryl Philips. As the American War of Independence reaches its climax, a plantation slave and a British Naval Officer embark on an epic journey in search of freedom. Divided by barriers of race but united in their ambitions for equality...
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ISBN:9780786109364
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Simon et al Schama
ISBN:9781854374530
"Beat" is Anya Gallaccio's site-specific installation for the Duveen Galleries at Tate Britain. It responds specifically to both the dramatic space and scale of the Duveen Galleries and the tradition of British landscape painting represented in the Tate Collection. The installation includes seven whole oak tree trunks...
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Plumb J H Schama Simon
ISBN:9781403906984
In this text, J.H. Plumb investigates the way that humankind has, since the beginning of recorded time, moulded the past to give sanction to their institutions of government...
Format:Paperback Pages:153
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Schama Simon
ISBN:9781847920126
'History clings tight but it also kicks loose,' writes Simon Schama at the outset of this, the first book in his three-volume journey into Britain's past. 'Disruption as much as persistence is its proper subject. So although the great theme of British history seen from the twentieth century is endurance...
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Schama Simon
ISBN:9781847920133
Ben gets the chance for a trip of a lifetime when his mum is invited to attend a big conference in Australia. In the midst of a drought, it's hot. And it's dry. Drier than it's been for years. And it only takes a spark to set off a fire... As world leaders gather and a student demo gathers pace...
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Schama Simon
ISBN:9781847920140
The story opens on the eve of a bloody revolution, but not a British one. The French Revolution never quite crossed the Channel, though its spirit of fiery defiance and Romantic idealism did...
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Schama Simon
ISBN:9780099536079
"Rough Crossings" is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping...
Format:Paperback Pages:544
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Schama Simon
ISBN:9781847921314
'Wednesday brought a pungent sheepy smell emanating from the greyish lamb and barley soup my mother optimistically called 'Taste of the Garden of Eden'. Expel me...
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Schama Simon
ISBN:9781405688833
At the time of the 2008 elections, Simon Schama takes the long view of how the United States has come to this anguished moment of truth about its own identity as a nation and its place in the world. In each of the chapters devoted to the most compelling issues facing Americans now - the projection of power ("American war"); race...
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