Citizens: A Chronicle of The French Revolution

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At this time, Schama wrote his first book, Patriots and Liberators, which won the Wolfson History Prize. The book was originally intended as a study of the French Revolution, but as published in 1977, it focused on the effect of the Patriottentijd revolution of the 1780s in the Netherlands, and its aftermath. [9] [10] Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth

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Slavin Morris. Simon Schama, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution. In: Annales historiques de la Révolution française, n°277, 1989. pp. 297-300. i13352325 |b1080003588853 |dculmb |g- |m |h2 |x0 |t0 |i0 |j18 |k010628 |n01-15-2018 15:28 |o- |aDC148 |r.S43 1989Nominated for BAFTA Richard Dimbleby Award for the Best Presenter (Factual, Features and News), for A History of Britain i123180387 |b31813001469690 |dbelow |g- |m |h18 |x1 |t0 |i0 |j300 |k190216 |n07-09-2022 17:10 |o- |a944.04 SCHAMA,S

Simon Schama, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution Simon Schama, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution

A similar critique of the American Revolution could be made as well--and of the English, the Russian etc. As regards the USA one could point to Canada or Austral

Schama worked for short periods as a lecturer in history at Cambridge, where he was a fellow and director of studies in history at Christ's College. He then taught for some time at Oxford, where he was made a fellow of Brasenose College in 1976, specialising in the French Revolution. [1] He also worked at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris. To explain the sudden end of the ancien regime he tells us that pornographic tracts featuring the lesbian shepherdess adventures of Marie Antonette alienated the ruling class from the monarchy this might be a sensible argument, if the writer was Swiss or Turkish or American, but the man born in Essex ought to know better and there was rampant Atheism, and an obsessive identification with the Roman republic and the American revolution, anyhow Rousseau was to blame and being conveniently dead is no excuse.