Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
Author(s): Simon Schama
In this New York Timesbestseller, award-winning author Simon Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology--a strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI's France.One of the great landmarks of modern history publishing, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolutionis the most authoritative social, cultural, and narrative history of the French Revolution ever produced."
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Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University and the prize-winning author of seventeen books, includingThe Embarrassment of Riches, Citizens, Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt's Eyes, the History of Britain trilogy andThe Story of the Jews. He is a contributing editor of theFinancial Timesand his award-winning television work as writer and presenter for the BBC includes the fifteen-partA History of Britainand the eight-part, Emmy-winningPower of Art."
General Fields
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- : Random House USA Inc
- : Random House USA Inc
- : 1.606
- : 01 July 1990
- : 237mm X 158mm X 42mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : Simon Schama
- : Paperback
- : 944.04
- : illustrations