New Releases by Simon Schama

Geschiedenis van de invloed van het landschap op de cultuur en verbeelding van de mens en van de mens op het landschap.

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 Quebec in 1759; the second, in 1849, that of George Parkman, an eccentric Boston brahmin whose murder by an impecunious Harvard professor in 1849 was a grisly reproach to the moral sanctity of his society. Out of these stories -- with all of their bizarre coincidences and contradictions -- Schama creates a dazzling and supremely vital work of historical imagination. "From the Trade Paperback edition.

Historische studie over de dood van generaal Wolfe (1759) en een reconstructie van een moordproces in Boston (1850), beide aangevuld met fictieve gedeelten.

This award-winning, worldwide bestseller is an authoritative social, cultural and narrative history of the French Revolution.

De politieke geschiedenis van Nederland vanaf de patriottentijd tot aan de grondvesting van het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden.

De voorgeschiedenis van de Franse Revolutie, het revolutiejaar 1789 en het verdere verloop tot het einde van de Terreur in 1794.

In a brilliantly inventive work, bestselling author Simon Schama explores the enigma of 17th-century Holland, a nation that attained an unprecedented level of affluence, yet lived in constant dread of being corrupted by prosperity. Drawing on a vast array of period documents and sumptuously reproduced art, THE EMBARRASSMENT OF RICHES throbs with life on every page. 314 photos & illustrations. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.