Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution - Softcover

Schama, Simon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140172068 ISBN 13: 9780140172065

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, 1996

Synopsis

[This is Part 2 of a 2-part Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.]

One of Time Magazine's Best Books of the Decade

A New York Times Bestseller

[Read by Frederick Davidson]

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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From the Inside Flap:

Instead of the dying Old Regime, Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology--a strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI's France. A New York Times bestseller in hardcover. 200 illustrations.

About the Author:

SIMON SCHAMA is a professor of art history and history at Columbia University and is the author of numerous award-winning books; his history Rough Crossings won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction. He has been a cultural essayist for the New Yorker and has written and presented more than thirty documentaries for the BBC, PBS, and the History Channel, including The Power of Art, which won the 2007 International Emmy for Best Arts Programming.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0140172068
• ISBN 13: 9780140172065
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 976