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While Britain was losing an empire, it was finding itself...' The compelling opening words to this volume, The Fate of the Empire, set the tone and agenda for the final stage of Simon Schama's epic voyage around Britain, her people and her past.

Nessun pittore ha mai guardato con tanta lucida intelligenza e inesauribile compassione al nostro entrare e uscire di scena e a tutta la sceneggiatura che si volge nel mezzo. A più di tre secoli dalla morte, Rembrandt, tra i più amati maestri della pittura, rimane un mistero. Le notizie sulla sua vita sono scarne: figlio di un mugnaio di Leida, trovò per qualche tempo la fama ad Amsterdam ma, nonostante l'unanime riconoscimento del suo genio, ...

Author of a number of celebrated works, including the bestselling The Story of the Jews and Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Simon Schama's latest book fuses history and art to create a tour de force of narrative sweep and illuminating insight. Using images from works-paintings, photographs, lithographs, etchings, sketches-found in London's National Portrait Gallery, The Face of Britain weaves together an account of their compos...

This volume, The British Wars, is a compelling chronicle of the changes that transformed every strand and stratum of British life, faith and thought from 1603 to 1776.

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Dit is het boek dat Simon Schama altijd al heeft willen schrijven: Possibly the greatest story ever told, een grootse geschiedenis van het Joodse volk in de geschiedenis van de wereld. Van Mozes tot psycho­ analyse, van de Bijbel tot de Westelijke Jordaanoever, van de cultuur tot en met de wetenschap: op al deze terreinen zijn Joden van een beslissende invloed geweest op de ontwikkeling van de wereld. Zoals John Adams, de tweede president van ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE The Jewish story is a history that is about, and for, all of us. And in our own time of anxious arrivals and enforced departures, the Jews' search for a home is more startlingly resonant than ever. Belonging is a magnificent cultural history abundantly alive with energy, character and colour. It spans centuries and continents, from the Jews' expulsion from Spain in 1492 it navigates miracles and massacr...

It spans the millennia and the continents - from India to Andalusia and from the bazaars of Cairo to the streets of Oxford. It takes you to unimagined places: to a Jewish kingdom in the mountains of southern Arabia, a Syrian synagogue glowing with radiant wall paintings, the palm groves of the Jewish dead in the Roman catacombs. And its voices ring loud and clear, from the severities and ecstasies of the Bible writers to the love poems of wine...

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Dit is het boek dat Simon Schama altijd al heeft willen schrijven: Possibly the greatest story ever told, een grootse geschiedenis van het Joodse volk in de geschiedenis van de wereld. Van Mozes tot psycho­ analyse, van de Bijbel tot de Westelijke Jordaanoever, van de cultuur tot en met de wetenschap: op al deze terreinen zijn Joden van een beslissende invloed geweest op de ontwikkeling van de wereld. Zoals John Adams, de tweede president van ...

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The acclaimed historian and award-winning author offers an essential, historical, outsider's perspective on the crucial 2008 presidential election and its importance for reclaiming America's original ideal.It's not business as usual. Cultural hostilities have divided America in two irreconcilable blocs more completely than at any time since the Civil War. In November 2008, the American people elected a new president, feeling more anxious about...

One of Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year In Landscape and Memory Schama ranges over continents and centuries to reveal the psychic claims that human beings have made on nature. He tells of the Nazi cult of the primeval German forest, the play of Christian and pagan myth in Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers, and the duel between a monumental sculptor and a feminist gadfly on the slopes of Mount Rushmore. The result is a triumphant work...

Tens of thousands of blacks in America at the start of the Revolutionary War escaped from farms, plantations, and cities to reach the British who offered the promise of emancipation in return for military service. Schama follows their odyssey through the war and into inhospitable Nova Scotia where thousands were betrayed.

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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 ...

Nothing that has happened since the inauguration of Barack Obama has dispelled the sense that the election of 2008 was the kind of moment of truth in American politics and history that seldom comes along. Simon Schama, the acclaimed historian and award-winning critic, followed the campaign, but unlike other accounts, The American Future looks at that contemporary moment through the window of time. In four areas critical to the fate of the Amer...

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