Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution

Author(s): Simon Schama

General & World History

In this New York Timesbestseller, award-winning author Simon Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology--a strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI's France.One of the great landmarks of modern history publishing, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolutionis the most authoritative social, cultural, and narrative history of the French Revolution ever produced."


Product Information

Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University and the prize-winning author of seventeen books, includingThe Embarrassment of Riches, Citizens, Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt's Eyes, the History of Britain trilogy andThe Story of the Jews. He is a contributing editor of theFinancial Timesand his award-winning television work as writer and presenter for the BBC includes the fifteen-partA History of Britainand the eight-part, Emmy-winningPower of Art."

General Fields

  • : 9780679726104
  • : Random House USA Inc
  • : Random House USA Inc
  • : 1.606
  • : 01 July 1990
  • : 237mm X 158mm X 42mm
  • : United States
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Simon Schama
  • : Simon Schama
  • : illustrations
  • : illustrations
  • : 944.04
  • : 944.04
  • : Paperback
  • : Paperback