Citizens - A Chronicle of The French Revolution (Schama Simon)(Paperback / softback)

Citizens - A Chronicle of The French Revolution (Schama Simon)(Paperback / softback)

Offers a social, cultural and narrative history of the French Revolution. This title provides an impression of the currents and contradictions which made up this terrible sequence of

Power of Art (Schama Simon CBE)(Paperback / softback)

* 'Great art has dreadful manners...' Simon Schama observes at the start of his epic exploration of the power, and whole point, of

Face of Britain - The Stories Behind the Nation's Portraits (Schama Simon)(Paperback / softback)

Citizens Minds The French Revolution Pupil's Book (Counsell Christine)(Paperback / softback)

Builds thorough understanding and enjoyment of History through enquiry. Think Through History provides an enthralling enquiry-based approach for 11-14 year olds built around key historical issues and

Patriots and Liberators (Schama Simon)(Paperback / softback)

A reissue of Simon Schama's landmark study of the Netherlands from 1780-1813, this is a tale of a once-powerful nation's desparate struggle to survive the treacheries and brutality of European war and

Belonging - The Story of the Jews 1492-1900 (Schama Simon CBE)(Paperback / softback)

HORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZESELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, MAIL ON SUNDAY AND OBSERVERBelonging is a magnificent cultural history abundantly alive with energy, character and colour. From the Jews' expulsion from Spain in 1492 it tells the stories not just of

Landscape and Memory (Schama Simon)(Paperback)

A Time Magazine Best Books of the Year. In Landscape and Memory, award-winning author Simon Schama ranges over continents and centuries to reveal the psychic claims that human beings have made on nature. He tells of the Nazi cult of the primeval German forest; the play of Christian and pagan myth

Wordy (Schama Simon)(Paperback / softback)

A wide-ranging collection of essays written by the award-winning writer and historian over his forty-year career, chosen by the man

French Revolution - From Enlightenment to Tyranny (Davidson Ian)(Paperback / softback)

A clear and fast-paced account of how and why the French Revolution descended into the

History of the French Revolution (Michelet Jules)(Paperback)

French Revolution and What Went Wrong (Clarke Stephen)(Paperback / softback)

An entertaining and eye-opening look at the French Revolution, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the Merde. The French Revolution and What Went Wrong looks back at the French Revolution and how it's surrounded in a

The French Revolution (Carlyle Thomas)(Paperback)

Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution opens with the death of Louis XV in 1774 and ends with Napoleon suppressing the insurrection of the 13th Vendemaire. Both in its form and content, the work was intended as a revolt against history writing itself, with Carlyle exploding the

Pogba, Mbapp, Griezmann: The French Revolution (Caioli Luca)(Paperback)

The three stars of a golden generation of French

The French Revolution: A History in Documents (Alpaugh Micah)(Paperback)

The French Revolution: A History in Documents explores the rapidly evolving political culture of the French Revolution through first-hand accounts of the revolutionary (and counterrevolutionary) actors themselves. It demonstrates how radical Enlightenment philosophy fused with a governmental crisis

French Revolution (Hibbert Christopher)(Paperback / softback)

Charts the French Revolution from its beginnings at an impromptu meeting on an indoor tennis court at Versailles in 1789, right through to the 'coup d'etat' that brought Napoleon to power ten years later. This book explains the drama and complexities of this

John Aubrey - My Own Life (Scurr Ruth)(Paperback / softback)

'A truly remarkable writer, one of the most gifted non-fiction authors alive' Simon Schama, Financial TimesSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDThis is the autobiography that John Aubrey never wrote. You may not know his

The French Revolution in Global Perspective (Desan Suzanne)(Paperback)

Situating the French Revolution in the context of early modern globalization for the first time, this book offers a new approach to understanding its international origins and worldwide effects. A distinguished group of contributors shows that the political culture of the Revolution emerged out of

The French Revolution, 1789-1799 (McPhee Peter)(Paperback)

This book provides a succinct yet up-to-date and challenging approach to the French Revolution of 1789-1799 and its consequences. Peter McPhee provides an accessible and reliable overview and one which deliberately introduces students to central debates among historians.The book has two main aims

Krakatoa - The Day the World Exploded (Winchester Simon)(Paperback / softback)

Chronicles the destruction of Indonesian island of Krakatoa in 1883. This book describes how one island and its inhabitants were blasted out of existence and how colonial society was turned upside-down in a

The French Revolution: A study in Democracy (Webster Nesta)(Paperback)

The French Revolution is no dead event; in turning over the contemporary records of those tremendous days we feel that we are touching live things; from the yellowed pages voices call to us, voices that still vibrate with the passions that stirred them more than a century ago - here the desperate

Interpreting the French Revolution (Furet Francois)(Paperback)

The French Revolution is an historical event unlike any other. It is more than just a topic of intellectual interest: it has become part of a moral and political heritage. But after two centuries, this central event in French history has usually been thought of in much the same terms as it was by

The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (Doyle William)(Paperback)

The French Revolution is a time of history made familiar from Dickens, Baroness Orczy, and Tolstoy, as well as the legends of let them eat cake, and tricolours. Beginning in 1789, this period of extreme political and social unrest saw the end of the French monarchy, the death of an extraordinary

A Life (Veil Simone)(Paperback)

Simone Veil, the former French lawyer and politician who became the first President of the European Union, was born Simone Jacob in 1927. In A Life, she describes in vivid detail a childhood of happiness and innocence spent in Nice that came to an abrupt end in 1944 when, at the age of 17, she was

Forever Boys - The Days of Citizens and Heroes (Lawton James)(Paperback / softback)