Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 17.03.1990 - 976 Seiten
In this New York Times bestseller, 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 Revolution is 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, including The Embarrassment of Riches, Citizens, Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt's Eyes, the History of Britain trilogy and The Story of the Jews. He is a contributing editor of the Financial Times and his award-winning television work as writer and presenter for the BBC includes the fifteen-part A History of Britain and the eight-part, Emmy-winning Power of Art.

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TitelCitizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
Autor/inSimon Schama
Ausgabeillustriert, Neuauflage
VerlagKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1990
ISBN0679726101, 9780679726104
Länge976 Seiten
  
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