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Studie over denken en handelen van voornamelijk de middenklasse in de Republiek der Nederlanden.

"Great art has dreadful manners," Simon Schama notes at the beginning of his exploration of art's power and purpose. He challenges the notion that masterpieces are merely polite objects, arguing instead that they are aggressive forces that disrupt our reality. This work takes us on an eye-opening journey through eight extraordinary masterpieces, from Caravaggio's David and Goliath to Picasso's Guernica, focusing on pivotal moments in the lives of eight artists who transformed art under extreme pressure. These figures—Caravaggio, Bernini, Rembrandt, David, Turner, Van Gogh, Picasso, and Rothko—faced crises with unwavering resolve, creating works that defied convention and shifted perceptions. Schama's vivid storytelling brings to life the dynamic personalities of these artists and the turbulent times they navigated, from bourgeois Amsterdam to Revolutionary Paris and Civil War Spain. Ultimately, this exploration reveals how these remarkable works of art offer profound insights into our existence, addressing the fundamental question of art's purpose. Through their creation, these masterpieces illuminate the human experience in ways that transcend ordinary understanding.

Een heruitgave van Simon Schama's baanbrekende studie over Nederland van 1780–1813, dit is een verhaal over de wanhopige strijd van een ooit krachtige natie om te overleven te midden van de verraad en brutaliteit van Europese oorlog en politiek. Tussen 1780 en 1813 werd de Nederlandse Republiek – een land dat ooit rijk genoeg was om de kassa van Europa genoemd te worden en krachtig genoeg om oorlog te voeren met Engeland – beroofd van zijn kolonies, binnengevallen door vijanden, gedreven tot de rand van faillissement en uiteindelijk gereduceerd tot een bijlage van het Franse rijk – een bijlage die zelfs de Fransen niet veel waardeerden. Uit deze gebeurtenissen heeft Simon Schama een meeslepende kroniek van revolutie en privateering, grondwetten en staatsgrepen geconstrueerd, in een klein land dat wanhopig probeert te overleven in een zee van geopolitiek. Net als zijn klassiekers 'The Embarrassment of Riches' en 'Citizens' combineert 'Patriotten en bevrijders' een meesterlijk gebruik van historische bronnen met een onbeschaamde vreugde in het verhaal. Het resultaat bevestigt Schama als een historicus in de beste traditie – iemand wiens studie van het verleden volumes onthult over het heden. Dit is een van de grootste werken van onze meest gerespecteerde historici.

Every so often, moments arrive in the destiny of great states when business as usual is suspended. A choice has to be made, not just between politicians or parties, but about the American future. To reinvigorate its self-belief, the United States will be looking for a leader who can relight the torch of national purpose, first of all within the country itself. But it will be looking also for a replenished sense of its historical place in the world. Companion to a groundbreaking PBS Series, The American Future will reveal American citizenship in the act of its own remaking.

A portrait opens a window into a person's life: who they were and wanted to be, who the artist saw and how everyone else looked on. From the divine paintings of Elizabeth I to the iconic photograph of 'bulldog' Churchill; from Victorian portraits of dead children to Hockney's of his elderly parents; from anonymous workers to the artists themselves, Simon Schama uses a stunning and surprising array of images to tell the story of the British from the Tudors to the present day. He will change the way we see Britain and each other.

The words that failed were words of hope. But they did not fail at all times and everywhere. These gripping pages teem with words of defiance and optimism, sounds and images of tenacious life and adventurous modernism, music and drama, business and philosophy, poetry and politics.

Simon Schama sets out to discover which story, if any story, is the story of the many stories of the disappearance of Doctor George Parkman, the perfect Yankee. Plus: William Boyd, Geoffrey Wolff, Louise Erdrich, Don DeLillo, Amitav Ghosh, and Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow (part two).

Simon Schama, the author of "The Embarrassment of Riches" and "Citizens", sets out to tell the history of two certainties, of two deaths. In discussing the "speculations" surrounding them, he finds himself involved in a history he cannot classify - the unpredictable history of stories. On 13 September 1759, General James Wolfe, having led the British troops up the St Lawrence to victory in the Battle of Quebec, died on the Heights of Abraham. Schama examines this death, and how Wolfe was made to die again - through the spectacular painting by Benjamin West, and through the writings of the 19th-century historian Francis Parkman. Schama's second death concerns Parkman's uncle, George Parkman of Harvard Medical College, who disappeared in 1849 in mysterious circumstances and who was rumoured to have been murdered by a colleague. Through these incidents, Schama sheds light on the writing of history, the history of history, and the relationship of "story" to "history".

An extraordinary book that explores how the earth itself has shaped the Western imagination and how, as a result, our interaction with the environment is far richer and more complex than today's doomsayers would have us believe.

For Rembrandt, as for Shakespeare, all the world was indeed a stage, and he knew in exhaustive detail the tactics of its performance: the strutting and mincing, the wardrobe and face-paint, the full repertoire and gesture and gimace, the flutter of hands and the roll of the eyes, the belly-laugh and the half-stifled sob. He knew what it looked like to seduce, to intimidate, to wheedle and to console; to strike a pose or preach a sermon, to shake a fist or uncover a breast; and how to sin and how to atone. No artist had ever been so fascinated by the fashioning of personae, beginning with his own. No painter ever looked with such unsparing intelligence or such bottomless compassion at our entrances and our exits and the whole rowdy show in between.

This work takes us from the mid-1770s when the country was intoxicated by a great surge of political energy through to the massive advances of technology and industrialisation during the Victoria era, and the burgeoning of the British Empire

With a foreword by Simon Schama, one of the world’s foremost historians, and with 9000 chronological quotations arranged in 90 thematic chapters, this huge treasury is bursting with historical gems. The verbal banquet comes courtesy of such diverse figures as Herodotus, Charlemagne, Dante, Shakespeare, Thomas More, Marie Antoinette, Napoleon, Harriet Tubman, Rasputin, Lenin, Nehru, Al Capone, Churchill, Charles Lindbergh, Mao, Gloria Steinem, Susan Sontag, and hundreds more. These aren’t quick one-liners, but richly detailed and generous excerpts from speeches, documents, literature, and other sources. Every continent and every major civilization receives representation and enlightening commentary, with topics ranging from the toppling of nations to the changes in science. All the quotations have annotations, with details about sources.

The definitive survey of Land Art and contemporary environmental art, now available in paperback

A wide-ranging collection of essays written by the award-winning writer and historian over his forty-year career, chosen by the man himself.

'History clings tight but it also kicks loose,' writes Simon Schama at the outset of At the Edge of the World?, the first book in his three-volume journey into Britain's past. And change - sometimes gentle and subtle, sometimes shocking and violent - is the dynamic of Schama's unapologetically personal and grippingly written history.

Simon Schama’s dramatic, broad-ranging, and immensely readable epic history of Britain reaches its triumphant conclusion in this third and final volume, which stretches from the American Revolution to the present.

Simon Schama explores the forces that tore Britain apart during two centuries of dynamic change - transforming outlooks, allegiances and boundaries. But as wars of religious passions gave way to campaigns for profit, the British people did come together in the imperial enterprise of 'Britannia Incorporated'.

Pre-eminent author and art historian Simon Schama has written widely on art for many years to great acclaim.

It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the steepest of odds. It spans the millennia and the continents - from India to Andalusia and from the bazaars of Cairo to the streets of Oxford. It takes you to unimagined places: to a Jewish kingdom in the mountains of southern Arabia; a Syrian synagogue glowing with radiant wall paintings; the palm groves of the Jewish dead in the Roman catacombs. And its voices ring loud and clear, from the severities and ecstasies of the Bible writers to the love poems of wine bibbers in a garden in Muslim Spain. And a great story unfolds. Not - as often imagined - of a culture apart, but of a Jewish world immersed in and imprinted by the peoples among whom they have dwelled, from the Egyptians to the Greeks, from the Arabs to the Christians. Which makes the story of the Jews everyone's story, too.

In response to a declaration by the last royal governor of Virginia that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the King would be emancipated, tens of thousands of slaves--Americans who clung to the sentimental notion of British freedom--escaped from farms, plantations and cities to try to reach the British camp. This mass movement lasted as long as the war did, and a military strategy originally designed to break the plantations of the American South had unleashed one of the great exoduses in American history. Schama details the odyssey of the escaped blacks through the fires of war and the terror of potential recapture at the war's end, into inhospitable Nova Scotia, where thousands who had served the Crown were betrayed and, in a little-known hegira of the slave epic, sent across the broad, stormy ocean to Sierra Leone.--From publisher description.̓

A narrative history of the French Revolution by the author of "Patriots and Liberators" and "The Embarrassment of Riches". Drawing on resources of social and cultural history, Schama focuses on the transformation of the initial euphoric vision of the Revolution into the reality of the Terror.

An epic story of love, sacrifice and redemption amidst horrific violence and world changing events, interweaving one family's intensely personal drama with the terror and chaos of the French Revolution.

Passionate, provocative, entertaining and informative, Scribble, Scribble, Scribble ranges far and wide: from cookery and family to Barack Obama, from preaching and Shakespeare to Victorian sages, from Charlotte Rampling and Hurricane Katrina to 'The Fate of Eloquence in the Age of The Osbournes'.

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Cities and countries gripped by panic and death, desperate for vaccines yet fearful of inoculation—this mirrors the global experience during Covid-19. Simon Schama illustrates that history has seen similar crises before. Through compelling narratives set in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, he recounts the devastation of smallpox in London, cholera in Paris, and plague in India. The stories unfold in hospitals, prisons, palaces, and slums, featuring unforgettable characters: a philosopher-playwright suffering from smallpox in a chateau, a doctor making house calls in Halifax, and a woman doctor in India navigating her inoculator-carriage through devastated streets. The narrative also takes us into laboratories where life-saving breakthroughs occur in Paris, Hong Kong, and Mumbai. Central to this tale is Waldemar Haffkine, a Jewish student turned microbiologist at the Pasteur Institute, celebrated in England as 'the saviour of mankind' for vaccinating millions against cholera and bubonic plague in British India, despite facing rejection from the medical establishment. Creator of the first mass vaccine production line in Mumbai, he ultimately suffers a tragic injustice. This work traverses borders between east and west, rich and poor, politics and science, emphasizing the interconnectedness of humanity and nature. Schama asserts that as we confront modern challenges, "there are no foreigners, only familiars."

In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder Allen Lane's vision of good books for all'. whose books and TV series have enthralled huge audiences through their gripping storytelling. Citizens, his award-winning account of the French Revolution, has continued to be one of Penguin's most popular history titles since it was first published in 1989. This extract takes us into the heart of the revolution's ferment as the angry crowd storm the Bastille

Wednesday brought a pungent sheepy smell emanating from the greyish lamb and barley soup my mother optimistically called 'Taste of the Garden of Eden'. Expel me, please. Haddock in the air? That would be Thursday

Simon Schama, známý popularizátor umění, nás zve na procházku po Národní portrétní galerii v Londýně a zároveň po dějinách Velké Británie. Pohlédneme do tváře řady významných osobností – monarchů, šlechticů, umělců a dalších, kteří ve tváři ostrovního impéria zanechali výrazný otisk. Schama jako skvělý vypravěč podniká výpravy do hloubi dějin, koření je barvitými příběhy, každá kapitola je dobrodružnou cestou do vzdálenější i nedávné historie; najdeme v nich odpovědi na otázky, proč se portréty malují a jaký byl jejich význam ať už z uměleckého nebo třeba i z politického hlediska. Kniha je také pobídkou zamyslet se nad osobnostmi, které většinou známe z učebnic, nad jejich osudy, touhami a nad tím, čím se zapsaly do dějin.

Voor De universiteit van het leven voerde Rob Riemen indringende vraaggesprekken met negentien bijzondere vrienden. Het zijn uitgevers, musici, schrijvers, filosofen, wetenschappers en een vakbondsman, die met hun intellectuele, politieke of artistieke talenten internationale faam hebben verworven. Zij hebben een lange levensreis achter de rug en zijn bij uitstek in staat antwoord te geven op de vraag die in elk gesprek centraal stond: wat heeft het leven je geleerd?Wat geven de negentien levensreizigers aan inzicht en ervaring door aan ons, lezers, die in zekere zin allemaal hun erfgenamen zijn? Rob Riemen, die met dit boek de vijfenzestigste uitgave van Nexus presenteert, tekende de levensverhalen op uit de mond van zijn vrienden en schildert zo hun onvergetelijk portret, vol melancholie, humor, verontwaardiging en troost. Een unieke groep mensen laat ons delen in de wijsheid die zij hebben opgedaan aan de universiteit van het leven.

L'histoire que Simon Schama entreprend de nous conter ici est à nulle autre pareille.Tout au long des dernières décennies, des découvertes archéologiques ont renouvelé notre vision de la manière dont a vu le jour la Bible, qui allait devenir le patrimoine d'une bonne partie de la planète. D'une extrémité du monde juif à l'autre ont été exhumées des mosaïques qui bouleversent notre idée de ce qu'étaient une synagogue et le culte juif, mais aussi de tout ce que cette religion, dans ses formes, partageait avec le paganisme et le christianisme primitif.Cette histoire s'étend sur les millénaires et les continents - de l'Inde à l'Andalousie, des bazars du Caire aux rues d'Oxford. Elle nous emmène d'un royaume juif dans les montagnes de l'Arabie du Sud à une synagogue syrienne aux murs peints étincelants, en passant par la colonie juive installée dans l'île d'Éléphantine, en Haute-Égypte, dès le vie siècle avant notre ère. Simon Schama nous conte avec maestria cette épopée où l'héroïsme de la vie quotidienne côtoie les grandes tragédies, et pose son regard d'historien de l'art sur les trésors qu'elle nous a légués. L'histoire des Juifs n'est pas, comme on l'imagine souvent, celle d'une culture à part, mais celle d'un monde juif immergé dans les peuples au milieu desquels il a vécu et marqué par eux, des Égyptiens aux Grecs, des Arabes aux chrétiens. C'est en cela qu'elle est l'histoire de tous.Première édition Fayard 2016.