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Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
de Schama, Simon
- Usado
- Bien
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Bien
- ISBN 10
- 0679726101
- ISBN 13
- 9780679726104
- Librería
-
Webster, New York, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Trade Paperback. Good. 6x1x9. Book club edition. Spine creased, edge wear. 1989 Trade Paperback. xx, 948 pp. "Instead of the dying Old Regime, Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology--a strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI's France." "This well-written, thoroughly documented book should be on every high-school library shelf. It explains the self-destructive, bloody orgy that occurred in France but not in England or Prussia, countries in similar states of poverty and with similarly deprived, disenfranchised populaces. Schama theorizes that the cause of France's revolution lies in the self-deception of the ruling intelligentsia, who believed that they could make a Utopian France by allowing controlled violence, murder, and the destruction of property in the name of liberty, and all to exist simultaneously with good government. Schama presents Talleyrand, Lafayette, and others with more understanding than they are given in most histories, setting them amidst a web of violence of their own making. This book speaks to today's world, as nations strive to move from despotism to democracy." -- School Library Journal.
Sinopsis
Simon Schama is the prize-winning author of seven acclaimed books. An art critic and essayist for The New Yorker , he also writes and presents documentaries for BBC television. He is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University and lives outside New York City.
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- Librería
- Yesterday's Muse Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 2343109
- Título
- Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
- Autor
- Schama, Simon
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Trade Paperback
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Bien
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0679726101
- ISBN 13
- 9780679726104
- Editorial
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1989
- Tamaño
- 6x1x9
- Palabras clave
- HISTORY FRANCE FRENCH REVOLUTION EUROPE EUROPEAN HISTORY
- X weight
- 45 oz
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