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A History of Britain - Volume 2: The British Wars 1603-1776 by Simon Schama
52.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
'Great Britain? What was that?' asks Simon Schama at the start of this, the second book of his epic three-volume journey into Britain's past. This volume, "The British Wars", is a compelling chronicle of the changes that transformed every strand and stratum of British life, faith and thought from 1603 t ...Show more
Art by Simon Schama
10.00 NZD
Category: Art & Fashion | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
'Great art has dreadful manners... ...The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock and proceed in short order to re-arrange your sen ...Show more
Belonging: The Story of the Jews, 1492 - 1900 by Simon Schama
40.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZESelected as a Book of the Year 2017 by the Daily Telegraph, Mail on Sundayand Observer 'A glittering gemstone of a book' The TimesThe Jewish story is a history that is about, and for, all of us. And in our own time of anxious arrivals and enforced departures, the ...Show more
Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492-1900 by Simon Schama
30.00 NZD
Category: History
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, MAIL ON SUNDAY AND OBSERVER Belonging 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 ...Show more
Face of Britain by Simon Schama
48.00 NZD
Category: History
"Simon Schama for teasing out extraordinary tales. Combining his two great passions, British history and art history, for the first time, he turns Britain's most remarkable portraits into mesmerizing stories of love, power, fame and fortitude - which are beautifully illustrated with the treasures of the ...Show more
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations by Simon Schama
70.00 NZD
Category: History
Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity o ...Show more
Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama
37.00 NZD
Category: History
Second hand. good condition. The forest primeval, the river of life, the sacred mount -- read Landscape and Memory to have these explained...'One of the most intelligent, original, stimulating, self-indulgent, perverse and irresistibly enjoyable books I have ever read. ' Philip ZieglerLandscape and Mem ...Show more
Patriots and Liberators by Simon Schama
37.00 NZD
Category: History
A timely 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 politics. Between 1780 and 1813 the Dutch Republic - a country once rich enough to be called the ...Show more
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama
34.00 NZD
Category: History
"Rough Crossings" is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon Schama follows the escaped blacks into the fires ...Show more
Scribble, Scribble, Scribble - Writing on Ice Cream, Obama, Churchill and My Mother by Simon Schama
30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: very good
A treasure trove of Schama's writing with subjects ranging from cookery to Barack Obama.
The American Future: A History from the Founding Fathers to Barack Obama by Simon Schama
33.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
In November 2008, the United States elected a new President. But the collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination about the trajectory of its history; how it came to find itself in multiple crises and how an America that began ...Show more
The Embarrassment of Riches by Simon Schama
37.00 NZD
Category: History
A social and cultural investigation of how a modest collection of farming, fishing and shipping communities without shared language, religion or government transformed itself in the 17th century into the formidable empire of the Dutch Republic.