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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Simon Schama's Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution (1989) is a popular narrative history in the tradition of Cobban and Furet. Schama argues that violence was an essential element of the Revolution from 1789 and that the revolution ended with the fall of Robespierre in 1794.
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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 ...
A History of the French Revolution, Scribner, 1905. OCLC 652178; Sutherland, Donald M. G. . The French Revolution and Empire: The Quest for a Civic Order. Blackwell Publishing France, 2008. ISBN 0-631-23363-6; Tilly, Charles, "Local Conflicts in the Vendée before the rebellion of 1793", French Historical Studies II, Fall 1961, p. 219-.