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Sir Simon Michael Schama CBE FBA FRHistS FRSL (/ ˈ ʃ ɑː m ə / SHAH-mə; born 13 February 1945) is a British historian and television presenter. He specialises in art history , Dutch history , Jewish history , and French history . [ 1 ]
Susan Buck-Morss criticizes Schama for his "selective national history" of the Dutch Republic, "that omits much or all of the colonizing story." [2] "One would have no idea that Dutch hegemony in the slave trade—replacing Spain and Portugal as major players—contributed substantially to the enormous overload of wealth that he describes as becoming so socially and morally problematic during ...
Simon Schama's Power of Art is an eight-part BBC TV mini-series examining the works of eight artists, the context surrounding one of their works and the message they intended to convey with these. It was written, created, narrated, and presented by Simon Schama .
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]
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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 ...