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Simon Schama
Simon Schama is a professor of art history and history at Columbia University, and is the author of numerous award-winning books; his most recent history, Rough Crossings, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction. He is a cultural essayist for the New Yorker and has written and... show more



Simon Schama is a professor of art history and history at Columbia University, and is the author of numerous award-winning books; his most recent history, Rough Crossings, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction. He is a cultural essayist for the New Yorker and has written and presented more than thirty documentaries for the BBC, PBS, and the History Channel, including The Power of Art, which won the 2007 International Emmy for Best Arts Programming.

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Birth date: February 13, 1945
Category:
Arts & Photography, History, Nonfiction
Simon Schama's Books
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution - Simon Schama The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age - Simon Schama A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3500 BC-AD 1603 - Simon Schama The Power of Art - Simon Schama Landscape And Memory - Simon Schama A History of Britain: The Wars of the British 1603-1776 - Simon Schama A History of Britain: The Fate Of Empire 1776-2000 - Simon Schama The American Future: A History - Simon Schama Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution - Simon Schama The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BCE – 1492 CE - Simon Schama Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writings on Ice Cream, Obama, Churchill & My Mother - Simon Schama Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul - Roy Porter, Simon Schama Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations - Simon Schama John Virtue: London Paintings - Simon Schama, Simon Schama, Paul Moorhouse A History of Britain: The Fate of Empire 1776-2000, Volume 3 - Simon Schama, Timothy West, Macmillan Audio The Cambridge Mind: Ninety Years of the ... The Cambridge Mind: Ninety Years of the "Cambridge Review", 1879-1969 - Eric Homberger, Simon Schama, William Janeway Anya Gallaccio: Beat - Simon Schama, Mar... Anya Gallaccio: Beat - Simon Schama, Mary Horlock Cy Twombly In Der Eremitage: Fünzig Jahr... Cy Twombly In Der Eremitage: Fünzig Jahre Arbeiten Auf Papier - Cy Twombly, Simon Schama The Story of the Jews Volume One: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD - Simon Schama Art History - Simon Schama Art History - Simon Schama
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Belonging: The Story of the Jews, 1492 - 1900 - Simon Schama
The Story of the Jews Volume One: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD - Simon Schama
Rough Crossings: The Slaves, the British, and the American Revolution - Simon Schama
Rembrandt's Eyes - Simon Schama
The Story of the Jews: When Words Fail, 1492 – Present Day - Simon Schama
The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age - Simon Schama
A History of Britain 3: 1776-2000 - Simon Schama
A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3000 BC - AD 1603 - Simon Schama
The Power of Art - Simon Schama
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution - Simon Schama
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Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 10 years ago
text Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama
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 ...
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Tolle Lege!.
Tolle Lege!. rated it 12 years ago
text A History of Britain: The Wars of the British 1603-1776
Before this book I didn't know a Stuart from a Tudor, now I do. The author's philosophy is that history should be as fun to listen to as possible. He does that with ease with this volume. He really gets most interesting when he is delving completely into some event or person such as the Battle of Ha...
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richardbrockbank1
richardbrockbank1 rated it 12 years ago
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I've found Simon Schama's trilogy very difficult to read, I think for three reasons. Firstly, he expects the reader to know a great deal about the subject, in very fine detail – it feels like a book for historians rather than the general reading public. Second, the language seems to me to be a rathe...
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My Journey in Writing
My Journey in Writing rated it 12 years ago
text A History of Britain: The Wars of the British 1603-1776
I really enjoyed this series and Simon Schama's style, which made it easy to remain engaged in what is, especially over the course of three books, a mine of information on the history of Britain. It was informative and entertaining.
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My Journey in Writing
My Journey in Writing rated it 12 years ago
text A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3500 BC-AD 1603
I think this volume was the most ponderous of the three of them, and I did struggle a couple of times in my journey through it, but the majority was engaging and interesting.
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