Rough crossings britain

Informationen zum Autor Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University. His award-winning books, translated into fifteen languages, include Citizens, Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt's Eyes, A History of Britain, The Power of Art, Rough Crossings , The American Future, The Face of Britain and The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words (1000 BCE - 1492) . His art columns for the New Yorker won the National Magazine Award for criticism and his journalism has appeared regularly in the Guardian and the Financial Times where he is Contributing Editor. He has written and presented more than fifty films for the BBC on subjects as diverse as Tolstoy, American politics, and The Story of the Jews and is co-presenter of a new landmark series on the history of world art, Civilisations. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: CBE Simon Schama, Simon Schama
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.04.2009
• EAN: 9780099536079
• ISBN: 978-0-09-953607-9
• No. of pages: 544
• Dimensions: 125 mm x 197 mm x 34 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Modern / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / World, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Imperialism, General & world history, c 1500 onwards to present day, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, General and world history, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance, National liberation and independence, Slavery and abolition of slavery