A history of Britain : the British wars 1603-1776 / Simon Schama
By: Schama, Simon
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BookPublisher: London : BBC, 2002Description: 544 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. (some col.) ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780563537472.Subject(s): History | Warfare & defence | European history | Great Britain -- History | Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714 | Great Britain -- History -- 18th centuryDDC classification: 941 SCH Summary: The British Wars is a compelling chronicle of the changes that transformed every strand and strata of British life, faith and thought from 1603 to 1776. It explores the forces that tore Britain apart during two centuries of dynamic change.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
To understand what Britain has become we need to know what it has been. The second volume in this history tells the story of Britain from the time of the Civil War. Each chapter focuses on a major theme.
TV tie-in.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The British Wars is a compelling chronicle of the changes that transformed every strand and strata of British life, faith and thought from 1603 to 1776. It explores the forces that tore Britain apart during two centuries of dynamic change.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Simon Schama is an historian, educator, and writer. He was born in London, England on February 13, 1945. Schama earned a B.A. in history in 1966 from Cambridge University and later became a fellow of Christ College.Schama was a Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Brasenose College, Oxford from 1976 to 1980. He also was an Erasmus Lecturer in the civilization of the Netherlands at Harvard University in 1978, and from 1980 to 1993 he was Professor of History and Mellon Professor of the Social Sciences and Senior Associate at the Center for European Studies. Schama has been the Old Dominion Professor of Humanities at Columbia University since 1993, teaching in the history, art history and archaeology departments.
Schama's 1977 book, Patriots and Liberators: Revolution in the Netherlands, 1780-1813, received the Wolfson Prize for history and the Leo Gershoy Memorial Prize of the American History Association. Another book, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, won the NCR Prize for Nonfiction. Schama also worked as an art critic for The New Yorker and has written historical and art documentaries for the BBC. In 2001 he received the CBE. In 2006 Schama earned the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction for Rough Crossings. His more recent works include A History of Britain and The Sory of the Jews, both written in multiple volumes.
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