Description
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.
Author: Simon Schama
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03/17/1990
Pages: 976
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 3.54lbs
Size: 9.32h x 6.24w x 1.65d
ISBN13: 9780679726104
ISBN10: 0679726101
BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe | France
- History | Military | Revolutions & Wars of Independence (See Also Unit
- History | Modern | 18th Century
Author: Simon Schama
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03/17/1990
Pages: 976
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 3.54lbs
Size: 9.32h x 6.24w x 1.65d
ISBN13: 9780679726104
ISBN10: 0679726101
BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe | France
- History | Military | Revolutions & Wars of Independence (See Also Unit
- History | Modern | 18th Century
About the Author
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.