Simon Schama
Author
Series
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
790 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map, portraits (some color), facsimiles (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The second of a three volume cultural history that details the journey of the Jewish people from 1492 through the end of the nineteenth century, incorporating the stories of many who seldom figure in Jewish histories. Through Schama's passionate and intelligent telling, a story emerges of the Jewish people that feels as if it is the story of everyone, of humanity packed with detail. -- Adapted from book jacket.
"Simon Schama's great project continues...
Author
Pub. Date
1989
Physical Desc
xx, 948 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From one of the truly preeminent historians of our time, this is a landmark book chronicling the French Revolution. Simon Schama deftly refutes the contemporary notion that the French Revolution represented an uprising of the oppressed poor against a decadent aristocracy and corrupt court. He argues instead that the revolution was born of a rift among the elite over the speed of progress toward modernity and science, social and economic change. Schama's...
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 750 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Rembrandt's Eyes, about which Simon Schama has been thinking for more than twenty years, shows that the true biography of Rembrandt is to be discovered in his pictures. Through a succession of descriptions and interpretations of Rembrandt's paintings threaded into this narrative, he allows us to see Rembrandt's life clearly and to think about it afresh." "Rembrandt's Eyes shows us why Rembrandt is such a thrilling painter, so revolutionary in his...
12) The power of art
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
448 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
496 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Details the story of the Jewish experience, tracing it across three millennia, from their beginnings as an ancient tribal people to the opening of the New World in 1492 to the modern day. A tie-in to the PBS and BBC series The Story of the Jews.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 465 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity of science, it has happened before. Characteristically, Schama's message is delivered through gripping, page-turning stories set in the eighteenth and...
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (58 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"For Columbia University's Simon Schama, John Donne is the poet who transformed English verse through a raw emotional honesty coupled with a virtuosic skill with language. Drawing upon the observations of John Carey, literary critic and author of John Donne: Life, Mind, and Art, and insightful readings by actress Fiona Shaw, Schama undertakes a passionate appraisal of Donne's work. Simon Schama's John Donne vividly brings to life the brilliant and...
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (approximately 882 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The fifteen-part series explores the vast history of the British Empire from 3000 BC to 1965. Simon Schama's compelling storytelling skills breathe new life into the dramatic stories of lives and moments in Britain's rich and colorful past.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (540 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Survey the history of art, from antiquity to the present, on a global scale. The nine-part series reveals the role art and creative imagination have played in forging humanity, and introduces viewers to works of beauty, ingenuity, and illumination across cultures. Narrated by Liev Schreiber.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (295 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the Jewish experience from ancient times to the present day through a cast of historical characters, vivid storytelling, location photography, and more.