Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution

by Simon Schama CBE (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1989

  $4.23

  From the author of The Embarrassment of Riches , at present teaching at Harvard, this new history of the French Revolution shows France infatuated with novelty and technology and in the midst of dramatic economic change. At the heart of the account is the transformation from subjects to citizens . They are lawyers, priests, professional men and even nobles with a faith that they can make a new France. But this euphoric vision turns sour. This work marks a return to the historical tradition of the epic narrative.

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  Paperback
  1990

  $4.23

  From the author of The Embarrassment of Riches , this is a history of the French Revolution. At the heart of this account is the story of the transformation of subjects to citizens . The author aims to show a France infatuated with novelty and technology in the midst of dramatic economic change. The darkening of the original euphoric vision of liberty into a scenario of hunger, anger, terror and death is the author's theme, as he draws on available material of social and cultural history. Citizens was winner of the 1990 NCR Book Award for Non-Fiction, which is considered to be the most lucrative literary prize given in this country.

• New

  Paperback
  2004

  $19.07

  One of the great landmarks of modern history publishing, Simon Schama's Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution is the most authoritative social, cultural and narrative history of the French Revolution ever produced. Monumental ...provocative and stylish, Simon Schama's account of the first few years of the great Revolution in France, and of the decades that led up to it, is thoughtful, informed and profoundly revisionist . (Eugen Weber, The New York Times Book Review ). The most marvellous book I have read about the French Revolution . (Richard Cobb, The Times ). Dazzling - beyond praise - He has chronicled the vicissitudes of that world with matchless understanding, wisdom, pity and truth, in the pages of this marvellous book . (Bernard Levin, Sunday Times ). Provides an unrivalled impression of the currents and contradictions which made up this terrible sequence of events . (Antony Beevor, Express ). Simon Schama is University Professor in Art History and History at Columbia University in New York, and one of the best-known scholars in Britain in any field. He is the prize-winning author of numerous books, including Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations) , Landscape and Memory , Rembrandt's Eyes and three volumes of A History of Britain . He is also the writer-presenter of historical and art-historical documentaries for BBC Television. He lives outside New York City with his wife and children.