Citizens (Other Format)
by:
Simon Schama (author)
ISBN:
9781442097353 (1442097353)
Publish date: February 9th 2010
Publisher: Paw Prints
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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