Louise Arbour, Simon Schama, Nigel Farage, and Mark Steyn. House of Anansi (PGW, U.S. dist.; UTP, Canadian dist.), $14.95 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-4870-0212-1
In a provocative debate, Arbour, a former UN high commissioner for human rights, and Schama, a historian—both proponents of more open policies with respect to asylum-seekers—clashed with Farage, a former leader of the U.K. Independence Party, and...
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Simon Schama, Author Alfred A. Knopf $50 (698p) ISBN 978-0-394-51075-0
Despite Calvinist sermons on thrift, the Dutch upper and middle classes flaunted their wealth in the consumer paradise that was 17th century Hollandbut they lived uneasily with material riches. How the Dutch reconciled piety with their commitment to
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Simon Schama. Ecco, $39.99 (800p) ISBN 978-0-06-233957-7
The second volume of Schama’s accessible epic history survey follows the successful model of the first, Finding the Words, 1000 BC–1492. While well-known figures, such as Baruch Spinoza, Alfred Dreyfus, and Theodor Herzl, appear in the narrative,...
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Simon Schama. Ecco, $39.99 (512p) ISBN 978-0-06-053918-4
Award-winning Columbia Univ. historian Schama, NBCC Award winner for Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution, brings to bear his gift for synthesizing mountains of information into a well-crafted, accessible narrative in...
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Simon Schama, Ecco, $27.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-06-200986-9
In these lively essays and reportage, Columbia historian Schama (The American Future: A History) turns his omnivorous erudition and warm prose to a vast array of topics. There are incisive historical essays on everything from Europeans' evolving...
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Simon Schama, Author Alfred A. Knopf $21 (333p) ISBN 978-0-679-40213-8
In a virtuoso performance, Harvard historian Schama underscores the yawning abyss between experiential knowledge of an event and historical interpretations of it. In the book's first half, heroic British general James Wolfe, killed in the battle for
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Simon Schama, Author Alfred A. Knopf $40 (948p) ISBN 978-0-394-55948-3
The Old Regime, far from being moribund on the eve of the French Revolution, bristled with signs of dynamism and energy, writes Schama in this sprawling, provocative, sometimes infuriating chronicle that stands much conventional wisdom on its head....
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Simon Schama, Author Hyperion Books $40 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6675-5
One suspects that Schama harbors a secret desire to be the Venerable Bede, whom he describes as a ""consummate English story-teller, an artful retailer of wonders, a writer of brilliantly imaginative prose."" In earlier works on the French...
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Simon Schama, Author Alfred A. Knopf $40 (652p) ISBN 978-0-679-40255-8
In an enormously rich, labyrinthine survey, Columbia University humanities professor Schama, author of prize-winning books on the French Revolution (Citizens) and Dutch culture (The Embarrassment of Riches), explores the role of landscape in myth,...
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Simon Schama, Author . Talk/Miramax $40 (544p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6752-3
This second in a series of three volumes, following the excellent A History of England: At the Edge of the World 3500 B.C.–1603 A.D., is an elegantly written, consistently engaging account of a seminal period in British history, penned by one...
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Simon Schama, Author Ecco $55 (448p) ISBN 978-0-06-117610-4
Schama presents eight remarkable artists who created their masterworks against a backdrop of personal and professional distress. From politically charged commentaries (David, Picasso, Turner and Rembrandt) to intensely personal visions of the world (
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Simon Schama, Author Vintage Books USA $27.5 (672p) ISBN 978-0-679-73512-0
Historian Schama explores the roles that have been played by landscapes in myth, art and culture. (Nov.)
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Simon Schama, Author Vintage Books USA $18 (352p) ISBN 978-0-679-73613-4
In a virtuoso performance, Harvard historian Schama ( Citizens ) underscores the abyss between experiential knowledge of an event and historical interpretations of it. This was a BOMC and QPB alternate in cloth. Photos. (June)
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Simon Schama, Author Vintage Books USA $29.95 (976p) ISBN 978-0-679-72610-4
In what PW called a ``sprawling, provocative, sometimes infuriating chronicle that stands much conventional wisdom on its head,'' Schama argues that the Revolution did not produce a ``patriotic culture of citizenship'' but was preceded by one. (Mar.)
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Simon Schama, Author . Ecco $29.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-06-053923-8
Past performance may not guarantee future returns, but it's the best we have to go on, contends this lively meditation on American history. Looking back from the tumultuous 2008 election campaign, historian Schama (NBCC-award winner for Rough...
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Simon Schama, Author . Ecco $29.95 (478p) ISBN 978-0-06-053916-0
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Has there ever been a patch of history more celebrated than the American Revolution? The torrent is endless: volume after volume about the glory of 1776, the miracle of 1787 and enough biographies of the...
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Simon Schama, Author . Hyperion/Miramax $40 (576p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6899-5
Renowned historian Schama has done it again with the third and final volume of this magnificent work, displaying his gift for combining scholarship and grace in a highly accessible narrative. Schama begins with the French Revolution and the "back
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Simon Schama, Author, Simon Schama, Read by , read by the author. HarperCollins Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-113702-0
The plummy voice, ringing with the sound of perfectly enunciated consonants and gently undulating vowels, immediately rouses images of the ancient stone walls of Oxford and Cambridge. Schama's posh accent takes every line of his new book, every...
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Simon Schama. Ecco, $32.99 (480p) ISBN 978-1-328-97483-9
Historian Schama (The Story of the Jews) examines in this insightful study the scientific battle against epidemic diseases over the past three centuries, as scientists contended with both the contagions and human intransigence. Schama describes...
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