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Landscape And Memory
450 pages too long: The author had a great idea for a book. He collected enough 'meat' for about 30-50 pages and then exploded it into almost 500 pages of boring talk, so typical of many historians. There are a few gems in this book and those few who [... more]
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The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch ...
Tough sledding and not for amateurs: I cannot say if this book is good or not. I have waded through one hundred pages and know that reading ten books a week for twenty-five or thirty years has left me insufficiently prepared for the verbal density. It is [... more]
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Jews/America: A Representation
Amazon.com Review: A photographic celebration of the diversity of the Jewish religion and Jewish people in America--from "Jews with Hogs," a portrait of a motorcycle group astride their Harley Davidsons outside a Miami Beach Synagogue, to " [... more]
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Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of ...
Great Read: I cannot believe no one has reviewed Roy Porter's last book. It reminds me of the Metaphysical Club, but it is perhaps a bit more wry. I enjoyed it thoroughly and have added it to my collection of books on the Enlightenment. It was [... more]
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Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
Too much chronicle, not enough craft.: Too much chronicle, not enough craft. I hoped to learn why the French Revolution failed so spectacularly and the American did not. I have some clues, but wish the author had provided more analysis. Defining failure [... more]
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History of Britain, A - Volume III: The Fate of the ...
Fun Read: If history bores you and you enjoy reading, I think Schama intends more to educate through entertainment than to simply educate. This is not the typical history book and is well-written. There are plenty of funny, interesting, and most often [... more]
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A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3500 ...
Amazon.com Review: What do you get when you combine the resources and ethos of the BBC with the literary panache of one of the world's best narrative historians? The answer is Simon Schama's A History of Britain, the first volume of which accompanies the [... more]
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Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations
So, you want to read history???: A few years ago, I became a professional social scientist. As such, I became tangled in the beginning...what is truth? I never figured it out, but I had to go to work and earn a living so I took up the viewpoint that [... more]
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Rembrandt's Eyes
Amazon.com Review: The great 17th-century Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn left us so many arresting self-portraits, painted at every stage in his eventful life, that his distinctive face and bearing are a familiar part of the 20th-century cultural [... more]
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Rembrandt's Eyes
Amazon.com Review: The great 17th-century Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn left us so many arresting self-portraits, painted at every stage in his eventful life, that his distinctive face and bearing are a familiar part of the 20th-century cultural [... more]
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A History of Britain I: At the Edge of the World ...
Author: Simon Schama Binding: Audio CD EAN: 9780754087809 Format: Audiobook ISBN: 0754087808 Number Of Items: 14 Publication Date: 2003-09 [... more]
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History of Britain, A - Volume II: The Wars of the ...
Amazon.com Review: The beginning of the 17th century promised that England's golden age would long outlast its Elizabethan namesake. Within a few years, that promise would end in civil war, political unrest, and international conflict, a period of strife [... more]
$40.00
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