Simon Schama
Author
Pub. Date
[2000-2002]
Physical Desc
3 volumes : illustrations (some color), color maps, photographs, portraits (some color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Simon Schama brings Britain's past to life with a wealth of stories and vivid detail. Schama's perspective moves from the early tribes and invasions of the British isles to the Norman Conquest; through the religious wars and turbulence of the Middle Ages to the sovereignties of Henry II, Richard I and King John; through the outbreak of the Black Death, which destroyed nearly half of Europe's population; through the reign of Edward I and the growth...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
xii, 400 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Historian Simon Schama offers an essential historical perspective on the 2008 presidential election and its importance for reclaiming America's original ideal. Cultural hostilities more irreconcilable than any since the Civil War have divided America in two. In November 2008, the American people elected a new president, feeling more anxious about the future of the nation than at any time since Watergate. Our omnipotent military, the cornucopia of...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
790 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (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.
Author
Pub. Date
1999.
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...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 602 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
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 Britain weaves together an account of their composition, framed by their particular moment of creation, and in the process unveils a collective portrait of a nation and its history. "Portraits."...
11) Rough crossings
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence.
Pub. Date
[2018]
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.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 400 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Focusing on eight iconic works of art, this series reveals the history of visual imagination through the ages. A combination of reconstruction, photography and storytelling transport the viewer back to the intense moments when great works were conceived and born: the murderous, messianic world of Baroque Rome; opulent, parvenu Amsterdam; paranoid, revolutionary Paris; Victorian England suffocating beneath riches and righteousness; the madhouses and...
