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In 1794, French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre produced the world's first defense of "state terror" – claiming that the road to virtue lay through political violence. This film combines drama, archive and documentary interviews to examine Robespierre's year in charge of the Committee of Public Safety – the powerful state machine at ...
Schama first came to public attention with his history of the French Revolution titled Citizens, published in 1989. [1] He is also known for writing and hosting the 15-part BBC television documentary series A History of Britain (2000—2002), [ 3 ] [ 4 ] as well as other documentary series such as The American Future: A History (2008) and The ...
Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm has described the book in 1990 as being "exceptionally stylish and eloquent" and "extremely well-read." Nevertheless, he considered Citizens to be, above all, in his view a wrongful political denunciation of the revolution and a continuation of a tradition in British literature and popular consciousness (in his view established by the writings of Edmund Burke ...
Simon Schama: Depictions of nature and landscapes. 1 March 2018 4 "The Eye of Faith" Mary Beard: Religious art and iconoclasm. 1 March 2018 5 "The Triumph of Art" Simon Schama: Mutual influence of the Islamic Golden Age and European Renaissance. 1 March 2018 6 "First Contact" David Olusoga: Global exploration and its impact among distant ...
A History of Britain is a BBC documentary series written and presented by Simon Schama, first transmitted in the United Kingdom from 30 September 2000. A study of the history of the British Isles, each of the 15 episodes allows Schama to examine a particular period and tell of its events in his own style. All the programmes are of 59 minutes ...
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution is a history book by Simon Schama. [1] [2] [3] It was the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award winner for general nonfiction. [4] A 2007 drama-documentary television programme was based on it. [5]
The American Future: A History is a four-part documentary series written and presented by Simon Schama which aired on BBC Two in the UK during October 2008, in the run up to the 2008 US presidential election. The first episode was broadcast on BBC Two at 9:00pm on 10 October 2008, and it was shown over four consecutive Fridays.
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