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Simon Schama

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De Amerikaanse toekomst: Een Geschiedenis (2008)

A good thematic piece of storytelling, highlighting interesting and often lesser known people, places and events in order to elucidate some of the general themes that make up American history. Schama beautifully interweaves history with a few anecdotes from his own experience, but never letting p...

De Amerikaanse toekomst: Een Geschiedenis (2008) by Simon Schama
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A History of Britain: The Fate Of Empire 1776-2000 (2002)

Simon Schama ends his narrative history of Britain with this third volume, ‘The Fate of Empire’, covering the era 1776 to the millennium. This final volume is in itself a five star work; ending an overall five star series.At one point Schama recounts the young Churchill reading Macaulay and descr...

A History of Britain: The Fate Of Empire 1776-2000 (2002) by Simon Schama
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A History of Britain: The Wars of the British 1603-1776 (2001)

Volume II of Simon Schama’s History of Britain purports itself as, “The Wars of the British, 1603-1776” (Volume I presumably compasses the preceding 56 hundred-odd years), but it is in truth, and of necessity, something more than that. While the martial conflicts of that age were certainly of ce...

A History of Britain: The Wars of the British 1603-1776 (2001) by Simon Schama
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Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul (2005)

A lovely examination of the philosophy of the mind, the self, and the body. Not something I'd recommend to an entirely casual reader, for the tone is rather scholarly and geared more to someone with an interest in the subject, but for anyone who enjoys Roy Porter's work and Enlightenment philosop...

Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul (2005) by Simon Schama

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