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All three trade paperback. The vast, critically acclaimed epic of British history, which has been called 'masterly' ("Financial Times"), 'admirable' ("The Times") and 'popular history at its finest' ("Sunday Express").

Simon Schama explores the forces that tore Britain apart during two centuries of dynamic change - transforming outlooks, allegiances and boundaries.From the beginning of July 1637, battles raged on for 200 years - both at home and abroad, on sea and on land, up and down the length of burgeoning Britain, across Europe, America and India. Most would be wars of faith - waged on wide-ranging grounds of political or religious conviction. But as war...

Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University. His award-winning books, translated into fifteen languages, include Citizens, Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt's Eyes, A History of Britain, The Power of Art, Rough Crossings, The American Future, The Face of Britain and The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words (1000 BCE - 1492). His art columns for the New Yorker won the National Magazine Award for criticis...

A timely and masterful history of the world's most controversial superpower by popular and distinguished historian Simon Schama. In November 2008 the United States elected a new President. But the collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination, how it came to find itself in multiple crises and how an America that began as 'the last best hope for mankind' came to be so s...

Rough Crossings is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence.

Cookery is not necessarily a subject one immediately associates with the author - one of Britain's most distinguished historians and commentators. This title presents a selection of his occasional writings that range: from cookery and family to Barack Obama, from preaching and Shakespeare to Victorian sages.

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Simon Schama is University Professor in Art History and History at Columbia University in New York, and one of the best-known scholars in Britain in any field. He is the prize-winning author of numerous books, including Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations), Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt's Eyes and three volumes of A History of Britain. He is also the writer-presenter of historical and art-historical documentaries for BBC Television. H...

An ingenious exploration of how environment influences history, how events and personalities, wars and nationalities are shaped by their surroundings, by the very rise and fall of earth, water and forest. Drawing on the techniques employed by novelists, he produces an impressionistic and compelling portrait of the world around us and how it shapes us. 32pp colour illus, 200 integrated b/w illus.

Like his The Embarrassment of Riches and the bestselling Citizens, Simon Schama's latest book is both history and literature of immense stylishness and ambition. But Dead Certainties goes beyond these more conventional histories to address the deeper enigmas that confront a student of the past. In order to do so, Schama reconstructs -- and at times reinvents -- two ambiguous deaths: the first, that of General James Wolfe at the battle of Quebe...