Simon Schama
Författare till Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
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Simon Schama is an historian, educator, and writer. He was born in London, England on February 13, 1945. Schama earned a B.A. in history in 1966 from Cambridge University and later became a fellow of Christ College. Schama was a Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Brasenose College, Oxford from visa mer 1976 to 1980. He also was an Erasmus Lecturer in the civilization of the Netherlands at Harvard University in 1978, and from 1980 to 1993 he was Professor of History and Mellon Professor of the Social Sciences and Senior Associate at the Center for European Studies. Schama has been the Old Dominion Professor of Humanities at Columbia University since 1993, teaching in the history, art history and archaeology departments. Schama's 1977 book, Patriots and Liberators: Revolution in the Netherlands, 1780-1813, received the Wolfson Prize for history and the Leo Gershoy Memorial Prize of the American History Association. Another book, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, won the NCR Prize for Nonfiction. Schama also worked as an art critic for The New Yorker and has written historical and art documentaries for the BBC. In 2001 he received the CBE. In 2006 Schama earned the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction for Rough Crossings. His more recent works include A History of Britain and The Sory of the Jews, both written in multiple volumes. (Bowker Author Biography) Simon Schama is the author of The Embarrassment of Riches, Citizens, Landscape and Memory, and most recently, Rembrandt's Eyes. He is currently Old Dominion Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University. The second installment of his epic history of Britain is due to be published in April 2001. (Publisher Provided) visa färre
Serier
Verk av Simon Schama
Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writing on Politics, Ice Cream, Churchill, and My Mother (2010) 199 exemplar
A History of Britain 3500 B.C.-1603 A.D., Volume 3: King Death; Burning Convictions (2000) 2 exemplar
Schama Simon 1 exemplar
History of Britain - King Death 1 exemplar
A History of Britain 1 -3000 BC -AD 1603 1 exemplar
Rembrandt's eyes 1 exemplar
Dead certainties : unwarranted speculations 1 exemplar
The late Rembrandt [DVD] (59 min) 1 exemplar
Romantics and Us, The [DVD] [2020] 1 exemplar
Belongong 1 exemplar
Realms of light, the Baroque 1 exemplar
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution : Powers of Recall---Forty Years Later (Excerpt) 1 exemplar
Civilisations [DVD] [2018] 1 exemplar
A History of Britain (Series 1-3) 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas (1997) — Bidragsgivare — 429 exemplar
The Smiles of Rome: A Literary Companion for Readers and Travelers (2005) — Bidragsgivare — 57 exemplar
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 1992 (1992) — Author "The Poetry of History" — 17 exemplar
Art of the Western World: Volume 5: Realms of Light: The Baroque (1989) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Schama, Simon Michael
- Andra namn
- Schama, Simon
西蒙.夏馬 - Födelsedag
- 1945-02-13
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- Verenigd Koninkrijk
- Födelseort
- London, England, UK
- Bostadsorter
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
London, England, UK
Southend-on-Sea, Essex, UK
Briarcliff Manor, New York, USA - Utbildning
- University of Cambridge (BA|1966 - Christ's College)
- Yrken
- historicus
- Relationer
- Papaioannou, Virginia (wife)
- Organisationer
- University of Oxford (Brasenose College)
Harvard University
Columbia University (University Professor of Art History and History)
The New Yorker
Newsweek
The Daily Beast - Priser och utmärkelser
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (1992)
Commander, Order of the British Empire (2001)
Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement (2011)
Norton Medlicott Medal (2002)
Knight Bachelor (2019)
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (2017) (visa alla 10)
British Academy (Correspondent Fellow, 2015)
Feltrinelli Prize (2015)
Leo Gershoy Award (1977)
Wolfson History Prize (1977)
Medlemmar
Diskussioner
Folio Archives 314: Citizens, A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama 2004 i Folio Society Devotees (mars 2023)
Tolstoy's War and Peace: comments on the Volokhonsky,/Pevear translation by Simon Schama, BBC R3 i Fans of Russian authors (november 2007)
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My List (1)
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- Verk
- 74
- Även av
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- Medlemmar
- 17,083
- Popularitet
- #1,300
- Betyg
- 3.9
- Recensioner
- 183
- ISBN
- 349
- Språk
- 16
- Favoritmärkt
- 48