Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
by:
Simon Schama (author)
Instead of the dying Old Regime, Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology -- a strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI's France. A New York Times bestseller in hardcover. 200 illustrations.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Instead of the dying Old Regime, Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology -- a strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI's France. A New York Times bestseller in hardcover. 200 illustrations.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780394559483 (0394559487)
Publish date: December 13th 1991
Publisher: Alfred Knopf
Pages no: 948
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Reference,
Literature,
Cultural,
War,
Politics,
France,
Research,
European History,
World History,
18th Century,
French Revolution
bookshelves: autumn-2014, nonfiction, fraudio, france, bloat, arch, published-1989, history, spring-2015, tbr-busting-2015 Read from September 02, 2014 to May 14, 2015 Elephant of the Bastille Arrogant and bloated style and in such detail that after a while one just wants to scream. 948 pages ...
This is a mostly great book but there are two big problems. First, he attempts to walk the line between narrative and rigorous history. Mostly, it is a narrative, but he regularly criticizes other historians' opinions and the implication is that they weren't rigorous enough (sometimes he is explic...
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