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His second book, Two Rothschilds and the Land of Israel (1978), is a study of the Zionist aims of Edmond and James Rothschild. and death threatened all. The sententious religion of universal brotherhood gave way to the polemics of paranoia: Rousseau with a hoarse voice, as Mr. Schama puts it. Personal scores became political causes. Nuts came out of the woodwork. i39039869 |b1030002343228 |dcms |g- |m |h6 |x0 |t0 |i1 |j18 |k030927 |n02-21-2019 01:59 |o- |aDC148 .S43 1989

Citizens by Simon Schama: 9780679726104 | PenguinRandomHouse

Violence] was the Revolution’s source of collective energy – it was what made the Revolution revolutionary. Bloodshed was not the unfortunate by-product of revolution, it was the source of its energy.” This book attempts to confront directly the painful problem of revolutionary violence. Anxious lest they give way to sensationalism, or be confused with counter-revolutionary prosecutors, historians have erred on the side of squeamishness in dealing with this issue. I have returned it to the centre of the story since it seems to me that it was not merely an unfortunate by-product of politics, or the disagreeable instrument by which other more virtuous ends were accomplished… In some depressingly unavoidable sense, violence was the Revolution itself.” Despite sporadic violence, the early Revolution was a bit like the hot-air balloons that trailed tricolor ribbons over the Champs-Elysees to celebrate a new Constitution. But to get that Constitution, crowds had been brought into the streets. It would Dazzling…stimulating…This is no ordinary book…Schama does not merely write brilliantly about people, about events, about the abuse of rhetoric, and about festivals and executions. He also chronicle with a dramatic burst of poetic imagination…. The virtues of this book [lie] in the coruscating brilliance of dazzling display of erudition and intelligence … His chronicle is, after all, a stunningly virtuoso performance."— Lawrence Stone, The New RepublicNonetheless, the shortcomings of the book are indeed just that—as the work as a whole is full of a wide range of facts and conjecture that will indeed appeal to those who already have extensive knowledge of the period and its unfolding events. The casual reader should be wary, as this is an academic undertaking that at times can feel rather slow and monotone in its style and flow—which is akin to quite a letdown given the fanatic history and horrific nature of the French Revolution. More than twenty illustrations are provided, with a couple of maps full of the various cities of France from the years covered, and a final epilogue which is unique in its telling of the bittersweet reunions that took place after such a barbarous ordeal. Reviewing the book in the journal French Politics and Society, Robert Forster of Johns Hopkins University wrote that "Schama desacralized the Revolution [...] by his inimitable style and wit". Forster praised Schama's analysis of key issues and his descriptive talents, though he criticized what he saw as Schama's overly favorable picture of the French economy and society on the eve of the revolution. [6] Schama worked for short periods as a lecturer in history at Cambridge, where he was a fellow and director of studies in history at Christ's College. He then taught for some time at Oxford, where he was made a fellow of Brasenose College in 1976, specialising in the French Revolution. [1] He also worked at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris. The book does an excellent job explaining the descent of the popular government from high minded declamations of freedom, justice, and equality to the madness of the Terror. As time went by the acclaimed proposals of one faction became the traitorous infamies of the next. exceptional nor unmanageable. And those who sought to manage it on the King's behalf were more than empty heads presiding over empty purses. Nevertheless, aggressive, reforming managers in high office did not manage to reform;

A History of Britain - Volume 1 - Penguin Books UK

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What makes or breaks a nation? To whom do we give our allegiance and why? And where do the boundaries of our community lie - in our hearth and home, our village or city, tribe or faith? What is Britain - one country or many? Has British history unfolded 'at the edge of the world' or right at the heart of it? The standard narrative of the French Revolution is of the oppressed proletariat heroically rising up to throw off the intolerable burden of a cruel and indifferent monarchy. The reality, of course, was far more complicated, and Simon Schama’s Citizens raises the question of whether the revolution was necessary at all. Monumental…a delight to read…Lively descriptions of major events, colorful cameos of leading characters (and obscure ones too), bring them to life here as no other general work has done….Above all, Mr. Schama tells a story, and he tells it well."— The New York Times Book Review

a successful bourgeois; and capitalist enterprise among nobles was as vigorous as among their bourgeois counterparts. Far from offering an obstacle to progress, the greatest modernizers in metallurgy, mines, shipbuilding or street Schama did not intend this book to be a strictly chronological record of the revolution. It is instead a look at France as it moved from a hapless monarchy to a hopeful democracy to government by violent populism. It is full of memorable characters, such as the wily Talleyrand and the brilliant revolutionary theorist Mirabeau. Some of the players are brave and thoughtful, some cowardly, and some dangerously destructive. Jean-Paul Marat, martyr of the revolution, was demonic in his hatefulness. He pioneered a form of journalism, popular in our own times, where anyone who disagreed with him was not just wrong, but knowingly, perniciously wrong, a traitor to the cause who should be eliminated by any means possible. Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.

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