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  • The Story of the Jews,

    Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD

    by Simon Schama ...
    Series Book 1 - Story of the Jews
    In this magnificently illustrated cultural history—the tie-in to the PBS and BBC series The Story of the Jews—Simon Schama details the story of the Jewish experience, from their beginnings as an ancient tribal people to the opening of the New World in 1492.It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • A Tale of Two Cities

    Series series Vintage Classics
    Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, A Tale of Two Cities is one of Charles Dickens’s most popular and dramatic stories.It begins on a muddy English road in an atmosphere charged with mystery and it ends in the Paris of the Revolution with one of the most famous acts of self-sacrifice in literature. In between lies one of Dickens’s most exciting books—a historical novel that, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Foreign Bodies

    Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations

    by Simon Schama ...
    A vibrant cultural history investigating pandemics and vaccines, by bestselling author and historian Simon SchamaCities 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 ... Read more

    Was $14.49 USD Now $7.99 USD

  • The Global Refugee Crisis: How Should We Respond?

    The Munk Debates

    Series Book 2016 - The Munk Debates
    The world is facing the worst humanitarian crisis since the Second World War. Over 300,000 are dead in Syria, and one and half million are either injured or disabled. Four and a half million people are trying to flee the country. And Syria is just one of a growing number of failed or failing states in the Middle East and North Africa. How should developed nations respond to human suffering on this ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rough Crossings

    The Slaves, the British, and the American Revolution

    by Simon Schama ...
    “The most dramatic account so far of the extraordinary expeience of slaves in and after the American Revolution. . . . Schama’s gift for plunging us into the very center of the action makes reading an exhilarating and often moving experience.”—Daily TelegraphIf you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, whom would you want to win? In response to a declaration by the last ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Scribble, Scribble, Scribble

    Writing on Politics, Ice Cream, Churchill, and My Mother

    by Simon Schama ...
    “Schama is a masterful stylist and storyteller.”—Boston Globe“A writer of gorgeous prose.”—Washington PostThe ever erudite, always delightfully curious Simon Schama returns with Scribble, Scribble, Scribble, a wonderful compendium of thirty provocative, witty, enlightening, and stimulating essays previously published but collected in a single volume for the first time. One of our most ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Story of the Jews Volume Two

    Belonging: 1492-1900

    by Simon Schama ...
    Series Book 2 - Story of the Jews
    In the second volume of this magnificently illustrated cultural history, the tie-in to the PBS and BBC series The Story of the Jews, Simon Schama details the story of the Jewish people from 1492 through the end of nineteenth century.A sweeping work of narrative history, volume two of this epic incorporates the stories of many who seldom figure in Jewish histories: not just the rabbis and the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Two Rothschilds and the Land of Israel

    by Simon Schama ...
    “Simon Schama has re-examined the role of Baron Edmond de Rothschild [1845-1934] and his son James [1878-1957] in the Jewish settlement of Palestine... He refutes Herzl’s charge that the colonies were a ‘rich man’s pastime to while away what would otherwise have been idle hours’ by illustrating how Baron Edmond’s immediate concern in 1882 for the sanctuary of Eastern European pogrom victims was, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The American Future

    A History

    by Simon Schama ...
    “With eloquence, wit, passion, and irony, The American Future traces the history of an idea: that of our national destiny….A book of beautiful writing, peppered with wisecracks, slashed with rapier thrusts.” —Philadelphia InquirerA De Tocqueville for the 21st century, Simon Schama, NBCC Award winning author of Rough Crossings offers an essential, historical, long view analysis of the American ... Read more

    $13.49 USD

  • The Face of Britain

    A History of the Nation Through Its Portraits

    by Simon Schama ...
    Author of a number of celebrated works, including the bestselling The Story of the Jews and Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Simon Schama's latest book fuses history and art to create a tour de force of narrative sweep and illuminating insight. Using images from works-paintings, photographs, lithographs, etchings, sketches-found in London's National Portrait Gallery, The Face of ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Audiobook

    Citizens

    A Chronicle of the French Revolution

    by Simon Schama ...
    Narrated by Frederick Davidson ...

    Unabridged

    36 hours 49 min

    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 ... Read more

    $39.95 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Embarrassment of Riches

    An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age

    by Simon Schama ...
    Narrated by Mike Cooper ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 46 min

    Simon Schama explores the mysterious contradictions of the Dutch nation that invented itself from the ground up, attained an unprecedented level of affluence, and lived in constant dread of being corrupted by happiness. Drawing on a vast array of period documents and sumptuously reproduced art, Schama recreates in precise detail a nation's mental state. He tells of bloody uprisings and beached ... Read more

    $29.99 USD