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A Chronicle of the French Revolution
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Simon Schama
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From one of the truly preeminent historians of our time, this is a landmark book chronicling the French Revolution. Simon Schama deftly refutes the contemporary notion that the French Revolution represented an uprising of the oppressed poor against a decadent aristocracy and corrupt court. He argues instead that the revolution was born of a rift among the elite over the speed of progress toward modernity and science, social and economic change. Schama’s approach, weaving in and out of private and public lives in the fashion of a novel, brings us closer than we have ever been to the harrowing and seductive French Revolution.
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A New World Begins
- The History of the French Revolution
- De: Jeremy D. Popkin
- Narrado por: Pete Cross, Jeremy D. Popkin
- Duración: 21 h y 54 m
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The principles of the French Revolution remain the only possible basis for a just society - even if, after more than 200 years, they are more contested than ever before. In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the listener in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Narration
- De Kindle Customer en 04-26-22
De: Jeremy D. Popkin
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The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution
- De: Timothy Tackett
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 15 h y 16 m
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Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a powerful dictatorship that claimed to be acting in the public interest. Only a few years earlier, revolutionaries had proclaimed a new era of tolerance, equal justice, and human rights. How and why did the French Revolution's lofty ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity descend into violence and terror?
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2 out of 5 stars
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Terrible Accent
- De john en 06-15-21
De: Timothy Tackett
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A History of Britain: Volume 1
- De: Simon Schama
- Narrado por: Stephen Thorne
- Duración: 15 h y 43 m
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The story of Britain from the earliest settlements in 3000BC to the death of Elizabeth I in 1603. To look back at the past is to understand the present. In this vivid account of over 4,000 years of British history, Simon Schama takes us on an epic journey which encompasses the very beginnings of the nation's identity, when the first settlers landed on Orkney. From the successes and failures of the monarchy to the daily life of a Roman soldier stationed on Hadrian's Wall, Schama gives a vivid, fascinating account of the many different stories and struggles that lie behind the growth of our island nation.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Some History. Mostly a Monarchy Tabloid Rag
- De Carrie en 03-22-19
De: Simon Schama
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The Embarrassment of Riches
- An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
- De: Simon Schama
- Narrado por: Mike Cooper
- Duración: 20 h y 46 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 7
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Simon Schama explores the mysterious contradictions of the Dutch nation that invented itself from the ground up, attained an unprecedented level of affluence, and lived in constant dread of being corrupted by happiness. Drawing on a vast array of period documents and sumptuously reproduced art, Schama recreates in precise detail a nation's mental state. He tells of bloody uprisings and beached whales, of the cult of hygiene and the plague of tobacco, of thrifty housewives and profligate tulip-speculators.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great!
- De Noe en 12-05-24
De: Simon Schama
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Foreign Bodies
- Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations
- De: Simon Schama
- Narrado por: Simon Schama
- Duración: 16 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Cities and countries engulfed by panic and death, desperate for vaccines but fearful of what inoculation may bring. This is what the world has just gone through with Covid-19. But as Simon Schama shows in his epic history of vulnerable humanity caught between the terror of contagion and the ingenuity of science, it has happened before.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Great Disappointment
- De Head Wolf en 04-27-24
De: Simon Schama
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Rough Crossings
- The Slaves, the British, and the American Revolution
- De: Simon Schama
- Narrado por: Simon Schama
- Duración: 11 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 133
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If you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, whom would you want to win? In response to a declaration by the last governor of Virginia that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the King would be emancpated, tens of thousands of blacks voted with feet, escaping to fight beside the British. Originally designed to break the plantations of the American South, this military strategy instead unleashed one of the great exoduses in American history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding book
- De major en 05-12-06
De: Simon Schama
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A Place of Greater Safety
- De: Hilary Mantel
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 33 h y 52 m
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It is 1789, and three young provincials have come to Paris to make their way. Georges-Jacques Danton, an ambitious young lawyer, is energetic, pragmatic, debt-ridden - and hugely but erotically ugly. Maximilien Robespierre, also a lawyer, is slight, diligent, and terrified of violence. His dearest friend, Camille Desmoulins, is a conspirator and pamphleteer of genius. A charming gadfly, erratic and untrustworthy, bisexual and beautiful, Camille is obsessed by one woman and engaged to marry another, her daughter.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Disaster
- De Frank Dudley Berry Jr. en 08-01-13
De: Hilary Mantel
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The French Revolution
- A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition
- De: William Doyle
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 4 h y 38 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 16
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The French Revolution is a time of history made familiar from Dickens, Baroness Orczy, and Tolstoy, as well as the legends of let them eat cake, and tricolors. Beginning in 1789, this period of extreme political and social unrest saw the end of the French monarchy, the death of an extraordinary number of people beneath the guillotine's blade during the Terror, and the rise of Napoleon, as well as far reaching consequences still with us today, such as the enduring ideology of human rights, and decimalization.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Solid Overview - Good for the Uninitiated
- De The Lee Family en 07-07-23
De: William Doyle
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The American Future
- A History
- De: Simon Schama
- Narrado por: Rupert Degas
- Duración: 15 h y 58 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 56
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In The American Future, historian Simon Schama takes a long look at the multiple crises besetting the United States and asks how these problems look in the mirror of time. In four crucial debates - on wars, religion, race and immigration, and the relationship between natural resources and prosperity - Schama looks back to see more clearly into the future. Full of lost insights, The American Future showcases Schama's acclaimed gift for storytelling, ensuring these voices will be heard again.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Simon Schama is always entertaining
- De D. Littman en 05-30-09
De: Simon Schama
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A People’s Tragedy
- De: Orlando Figes
- Narrado por: Roger Davis
- Duración: 47 h y 1 m
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Opening with a panorama of Russian society, from the cloistered world of the Tsar to the brutal life of the peasants, A People’s Tragedy follows workers, soldiers, intellectuals and villagers as their world is consumed by revolution and then degenerates into violence and dictatorship. Drawing on vast original research, Figes conveys above all the shocking experience of the revolution for those who lived it, while providing the clearest and most cogent account of how and why it unfolded.
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4 out of 5 stars
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It would be 5 stars
- De Michael Polevoy en 01-31-19
De: Orlando Figes
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Moscow 1812
- Napoleon’s Fatal March
- De: Adam Zamoyski
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 17 h y 32 m
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In 1812 the most powerful man in the world assembled the largest army in history and marched on Moscow with the intention of consolidating his dominion. But within months, Napoleon's invasion of Russia—history's first example of total war—had turned into an epic military disaster. Over 400,000 French and Allied troops perished and Napoleon was forced to retreat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very well done
- De Zach Simon en 06-25-24
De: Adam Zamoyski
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American Revolutions
- A Continental History, 1750-1804
- De: Alan Taylor
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 18 h y 54 m
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The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous nation. Alan Taylor, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, gives us a different creation story in this magisterial history of the nation's founding. Rising out of the continental rivalries of European empires and their native allies, Taylor's Revolution builds like a ground fire overspreading Britain's mainland colonies, fueled by local conditions, destructive, hard to quell.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best book on the American Revolution that I have read
- De Peter Stephens en 11-16-16
De: Alan Taylor
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FDR
- De: Jean Edward Smith
- Narrado por: Marc Cashman
- Duración: 32 h y 52 m
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One of today's premier biographers, Jean Edward Smith, has written a modern, comprehensive, indeed ultimate book on the epic life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. This is a portrait painted in broad strokes and fine details. We see how Roosevelt's restless energy, fierce intellect, personal magnetism, and ability to project effortless grace permitted him to master countless challenges throughout his life. Smith recounts FDR's personal battles and also tackles head-on and in depth the numerous failures and miscues of Roosevelt's political career.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting but flawed
- De Mike From Mesa en 09-15-13
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A World Undone
- The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
- De: G. J. Meyer
- Narrado por: Robin Sachs
- Duración: 27 h y 57 m
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On a summer day in 1914, a nineteen-year-old Serbian nationalist gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. While the world slumbered, monumental forces were shaken. In less than a month, a combination of ambition, deceit, fear, jealousy, missed opportunities, and miscalculation sent Austro-Hungarian troops marching into Serbia, German troops streaming toward Paris, and a vast Russian army into war, with England as its ally. As crowds cheered their armies on, no one could guess what lay ahead in the First World War.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great book!
- De Jodi Bernard en 07-11-23
De: G. J. Meyer
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Our Oriental Heritage
- The Story of Civilization, Volume 1
- De: Will Durant
- Narrado por: Robin Field
- Duración: 50 h y 17 m
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The first volume of Will Durant's Pulitzer Prize-winning series, Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization, Volume I chronicles the early history of Egypt, the Middle East, and Asia.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- De Michael en 11-30-13
De: Will Durant
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