La historia de los judíos también es la historia de la humanidad. Ahora que miles de personas se están viendo obligadas a abandonar su país de origen y recorrer un angustioso trayecto en busca de un nuevo hogar, cabe contemplar...
Ciudadanos no es la versión trillada de un régimen muriendo de enfermedad y decrepitud, sino el reflejo de la transformación que cambió la historia de Europa para siempre: el paso de hombres y mujeres de «sujetos»...
Simon Schama narra la historia de los judíos a lo largo de tres milenios, desde sus orígenes como una tribu en la Antigüedad hasta el presente; una historia única, de resistencia a la desaparición, de creatividad bajo opre...
Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University. His award-winning books, translated into fifteen languages, include Citizens, Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt's Eyes, A History of Brit
Cy Twombly is undoubtedly the most sensitive mind among the greats of contemporary art. His work finds its most personal expression in small, intimately sized drawings which he has from the very outset produced as of accompaniments to his paintings: they...
Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University and the prize-winning author of seventeen books, including The Embarrassment of Riches , Citizens , Landscape and Memory , Rembrandt's Eyes
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. Simon Schama uses a stunning and surprising array of images to tell the story of the British from the Tudors to the...
A story that 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...
'History clings tight but it also kicks loose,' writes Simon Schama at the outset of this, the first book in his three-volume journey into Britain's past. 'Disruption as much as persistence is its proper subject. So although the great theme...
In this book, J.H. Plumb investigates the way that humankind has, since the beginning of recorded time, molded the past to give sanction to their institutions of government, their social structure and morality. The past has also been called upon to explai...