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- By leading the reader through broad sweeps of history, featuring relatively well-known figures and events, Schama places the histories of vaccinology and other advances in medicine and public health in their broader content. This is what Schama does best: he uses the macro history to highlight the intricacies of the micro histories.
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Schama first came to public attention with his history of the French Revolution titled Citizens, published in 1989. [1] He is also known for writing and hosting the 15-part BBC television documentary series A History of Britain (2000—2002), [ 3 ] [ 4 ] as well as other documentary series such as The American Future: A History (2008) and The ...
Shunning the Marxist perspectives that have dominated the mid 20th century, Schama sees the revolution as a product of the middle classes. They sought to improve the well being of all people based on abstractions and utopian ideals. Schama thinks the causes of the revolution were weak and confected.
‘You may think our modern world was born yesterday,’ said Simon Schama at the beginning of The Romantics and Us. If you do, though, I can only imagine that you’ve never seen any history ...
Sep 30, 2013 · Simon Schama made a remarkably good fist of it in The Story of the Jews. There were few howlers, and this in itself is an achievement for someone who is not an academic specialist in the field.
Mar 28, 2014 · Forty-one years ago, a young history professor at Cambridge named Simon Schama agreed to complete one such work, left unfinished by the great British Jewish historian Cecil Roth when he died.
Nov 10, 2017 · The younger Schama resolved in the early 1970s to take on the large-scale history of the Jews planned, but never completed, by the polymathic British historian Cecil Roth.
Feb 14, 2024 · Sir Simon Schama, University Professor of Art History and History, was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge and taught at Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard before coming to Columbia in 1993. His courses have addressed the British Empire, English and French art and politics, the Gothic Revival in England, Ruskin, and Victorian culture.
