Citizens

Informationen zum Autor Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University and the prize-winning author of seventeen books, including The Embarrassment of Riches , Citizens , Landscape and Memory , Rembrandt's Eyes , the History of Britain trilogy and The Story of the Jews . He is a contributing editor of the Financial Times and his award-winning television work as writer and presenter for the BBC includes the fifteen-part A History of Britain and the eight-part, Emmy-winning Power of Art . Klappentext Simon Schama is University Professor in Art History and History at Columbia University in New York, and one of the best-known scholars in Britain in any field. He is the prize-winning author of numerous books, including Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations), Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt's Eyes and three volumes of A History of Britain. He is also the writer-presenter of historical and art-historical documentaries for BBC Television. He lives outside New York City with his wife and children. Zusammenfassung Offers a social, cultural and narrative history of the French Revolution. This title provides an impression of the currents and contradictions which made up this terrible sequence of events.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Schama
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.08.2004
• EAN: 9780141017273
• ISBN: 978-0-14-101727-3
• No. of pages: 848
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, France, HISTORY / Europe / France, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, c 1500 onwards to present day, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Revolutionary groups & movements, c 1910 to c 1919, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), Revolutionary groups and movements