Simon Schama: 13 books

Book cover of De geschiedenis van de Joden
by Simon Schama
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 29, 2013

Dit is het eerste deel (van drie) van De geschiedenis van de Joden van Simon Schama. Het is een verhaal dat zijn weerga niet kent, een epos van menselijke weerbaarheid, creativiteit, vreugde, verdriet. Het is een verhaal dat duizenden jaren beslaat en dat de continenten omspant: van India tot Andalusië,...
Book cover of The Face of Britain

The Face of Britain

A History of the Nation Through Its Portraits

by Simon Schama
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016

Author of a number of celebrated works, including the bestselling The Story of the Jews and Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Simon Schama's latest book fuses history and art to create a tour de force of narrative sweep and illuminating insight. Using images from works-paintings, photographs,...
Book cover of Scribble, Scribble, Scribble

Scribble, Scribble, Scribble

Writing on Politics, Ice Cream, Churchill, and My Mother

by Simon Schama
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011

“Schama is a masterful stylist and storyteller.” —Boston Globe “A writer of gorgeous prose.” —Washington Post The ever erudite, always delightfully curious Simon Schama returns with Scribble, Scribble, Scribble, a wonderful compendium of thirty provocative, witty, enlightening,...
Book cover of De geschiedenis van de Joden
by Simon Schama
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 23, 2017

In het tweede deel van De geschiedenis van de Joden richt Simon Schama zich op de periode van 1492 tot 1900. In 2013 verscheen het eerste deel (van drie), dat overal ter wereld lovend werd ontvangen. Met zijn karakteristieke flair en gevoel voor detail neemt hij je mee in de geschiedenis. Hij vertelt...
Book cover of The Story of the Jews Volume Two

The Story of the Jews Volume Two

Belonging: 1492-1900

by Simon Schama
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017

In the second of two volumes of this magnificently illustrated cultural history—the tie-in to the PBS and BBC series The Story of the Jews—Simon Schama details the story of the Jewish people, spanning from their expulsion from Spain during the Inquisition across six hundred years to the present...
Book cover of Het gezicht van een wereldrijk

Het gezicht van een wereldrijk

Groot-Brittannië in portretten

by Simon Schama
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 4, 2016

Wie een gezicht vastlegt, legt de geschiedenis vast, zo is de overtuiging van Simon Schama. De manier waarop Churchill ruziede met zijn schilder zegt iets over de politieke verhoudingen na de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Dat John Lennon een paar uur nadat hij in foetushouding was gefotografeerd door Annie...
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Ruwe oversteek

Groot-Brittannië, de slaven en de Amerkaanse revolutie

by Simon Schama
Language: Dutch
Release Date: February 13, 2020

Welk aandeel had de slavernij in de Amerikaanse Revolutie (1775-1783)?Simon Schama vertelt in Ruwe oversteek op meesterlijke wijze over de grote, maar onderbelichte rol die slaven speelden in de strijd tussen Amerika en Groot-Brittannië. Tienduizenden Afrikaans-Amerikaanse slaven vluchtten van plantages...
Book cover of The Story of the Jews

The Story of the Jews

Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD

by Simon Schama
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014

In this magnificently illustrated cultural history—the tie-in to the pbs and bbc series The Story of the Jews—simon schama details the story of the jewish people, tracing their experience across three millennia, from their beginnings as an ancient tribal people to the opening of the new world...
Book cover of 猶太人:世界史的缺口,失落的三千年文明史──追尋之旅(西元前1000-1492)
by 西蒙‧夏瑪(Simon Schama)
Language: Chinese
Release Date: February 2, 2018

歷史的至暗處,有光 這是個獨一無二的故事,屬於個人,屬於民族,屬於全世界 猶太人建立牢不可破的民族團結感,是一個沒有敵人能摧毀的無形神廟,是世界上最堅固的神廟。 沒有猶太人的故事,歷史就不完整;猶太人的歷史,就是世界史;只有了解猶太人的歷史,才能了解人類的文明 BBC名主持人西蒙‧夏瑪耗時40年,生涯顛峰之作,書寫猶太人的歷史,完全翻轉世界歷史 ‧廣博深邃、精雕細琢的史詩。──《出版人週刊》 ‧深入挖掘主題,從更廣闊的角度審視國與國、民族與民族之間跨越歷史的關係。──《洛杉磯時報》 ◆探詢耶路撒冷爭議的最源頭 一窺無國、無家的猶太人,如何在帝國與強勢文化的圍攻下,保有自己的價值 西方權威主導的歷史,是基督徒的歷史,是想像的歷史。當訴說的角度與材料被宗教、政治力量左右;當人們聽見的聲音、閱讀的史書全被強權論述掌控,歷史便裂開大口,有了空缺。 猶太人的歷史就是缺口的歷史,屬於個人、民族,也屬於全世界。三千年來,他們依附在各帝國之下,尷尬而窘迫的生存情況,對比、凸顯出西方主流敘事和本位的荒謬,也劃開被埋藏已久,以宗教為名行罪孽之實的歷史共業。 在主流書籍裡,猶太人只有掌握金權、受迫害的那一面,但實際上他們在這世界上的角色比我們想像得都要深沉、重要。 ◆猶太人是歐洲歷史上不可或缺的金礦脈 猶太人在基督徒的歐洲歷史上,以受「保護」之名支撐皇室經濟的特殊階層,長期為貴族階層提供經濟貿易服務,也因此成了局勢動盪不安、戰爭亟需金援時被隨意抄家的對象。而他們經商的手腕之高,甚至曾有商人被沒收的財產需花費五年才能點清,且其資產光是不動產就「足可抵全國一年的稅收」。 若沒有猶太人,歐洲的戰爭、擴張版圖,也許會與今日大不相同。 ◆猶太人是連結基督徒、穆斯林與波斯、羅馬帝國的親善大使 猶太人無國、無家的背景,使得他們必須跨越各國界,在各種文化間遊走。這影響了古希臘、羅馬、近東的文化交流史。在耶路撒冷、埃及、西班牙等地,都有猶太人文化長期與基督教、伊斯蘭、阿拉伯文化融合的痕跡。許多現今歐洲古教堂的,在更古早以前是猶太人的聖殿,祭壇上放置的蠟燭,則是他們流浪時帶不走的資產。在被人們視為尋常且全面基督化的景象中,始終藏有猶太文化的痕跡。 ◆猶太人是權威之下始終得以保有獨立文化的民族 自從亡國後,猶太人面臨波斯、羅馬、埃及、基督徒歐洲的強權文化夾擊,數度被驅趕、被屠殺,但卻始終沒有被消滅。這讓人們不禁好奇:他們究竟有什麼特殊之處,才能在無依無靠的情況下堅持這麼久呢? 我們可以說猶太人有自己獨特的文化,有他們獨特的宗教,有他們堅守的儀式,但誰沒有這些?猶太人擁有的是更為形而上,更為精神性的價值,是對自身民族命運的信心,和對其本質的驕傲,而這種力量能讓他們在顛沛流離中存活,甚至在1948年強勢宣布復國,奪回應許之地。 猶太人的身分和定位不只在歷史上,就連在現今國際情勢上也總是成為注目的焦點,雖無國無家,以他們為原點的紛爭和討論卻從未止息。 藉由《猶太人:世界史的缺口,失落的三千年文明史──追尋之旅(西元前1000-1492)》一書,西蒙‧夏瑪探尋猶太人的歷史,翻轉了一般大眾對猶太人的認知,就如同在西方史論述中找到一個破口,切開大國文明之下掩藏的一脈特殊過去。 ※...
Book cover of The American Future
by Simon Schama
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009

“With eloquence, wit, passion, and irony, The American Future traces the history of an idea: that of our national destiny….A book of beautiful writing, peppered with wisecracks, slashed with rapier thrusts.” —Philadelphia Inquirer A De Tocqueville for the 21st century, Simon Schama,...
Book cover of Rough Crossings
by Caryl Philips, Simon Schama
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017

Simon Schama’s extraordinary novel in a new stage adaptation by Caryl Philips. As the American War of Independence reaches its climax, a plantation slave and a British Naval Officer embark on an epic journey in search of freedom. Divided by barriers of race but united in their ambitions for...
Book cover of The Global Refugee Crisis: How Should We Respond?
by Louise Arbour, Simon Schama, Nigel Farage
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2016

The world is facing the worst humanitarian crisis since the Second World War. Over 300,000 are dead in Syria, and one and half million are either injured or disabled. Four and a half million people are trying to flee the country. And Syria is just one of a growing number of failed or failing states...
Book cover of Rough Crossings

Rough Crossings

The Slaves, the British, and the American Revolution

by Simon Schama
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009

If you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, which side would you want to win? When the last British governor of Virginia declared that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the king would be emancipated, tens of thousands of slaves fled from farms, plantations,...
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