History of Britain (Vol 3)
History of Britain (Vol 3)
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Schama completes his three-volume history of Britain to accompany the BBC TV series. This period, 1770-2000, covers a variety of themes and key British characters. First, the "Romantic generation" turned Nature into a revolutionary force, followed by the creative Victorians seeking a better world.
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History of Britain (Vol 3) by Simon Schama
This work takes us from the mid-1770s when the country was intoxicated by a great surge of political energy through to the massive advances of technology and industrialisation during the Victoria era, and the burgeoning of the British Empire.
The third and last part of Simon Schama's highly readable and utterly engaging history of BritainLike all great narrative historians, Schama is above all else an original prose stylist, fully in command of the evocative language as well as the source materials of historical description. This is also history conceived on a truly grand, epic scale, taking the reader from the Age of Enlightenment and revolutions in political and economic life, right up to Britain's post-imperial twilight at the close of the last century. Another BBC book that will be big at Christmas, not least because the entire 15-part series is to be repeated from September. And as this is the third volume, it is the one that everyone will buy to complete the set.
Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University in New York. His publications include Patriots and Liberators, which won the 1989 Yorkshire Post Award for Non-Fiction, Dead Certainties, Landscape Eyes, and the History of Britain series. Simon Schama was art critic for the New Yorker from 1995 to 1998, and was awarded a C.B.E. in the 2001 New Year's Honours List. His most recent book, Simon Schama's Power of Art, was published to critical acclaim in 2006.
| SKU | Non disponible |
| ISBN 13 | 9780563534570 |
| ISBN 10 | 0563534575 |
| Titre | History of Britain (Vol 3) |
| Auteur | Simon Schama |
| État | Non disponible |
| Type de reliure | Hardback |
| Éditeur | Ebury Publishing |
| Année de publication | 2002-10-24 |
| Nombre de pages | 576 |
| Note de couverture | La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier. |
| Note | Non disponible |