Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations

Name: Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations
Brand: Vintage Publishing
SKU: 9780679736134
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Autor: Simon Schama

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Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: Vintage Publishing

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Like his The Embarrassment of Riches and the bestselling Citizens, Simon Schama's latest book is bot...

Informace o knize

Autor

Simon Schama

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

1992

Stránek

352

EAN

9780679736134

ISBN

0679736131

Enbook ID

11455244

Vydavatel

Vintage Publishing

Hmotnost

358

Rozměry

131 x 204 x 18

Kompletní popis

Like his The Embarrassment of Riches and the bestselling Citizens, Simon Schama's latest book is both history and literature of immense stylishness and ambition. But Dead Certainties goes beyond these more conventional histories to address the deeper enigmas that confront a student of the past. In order to do so, Schama reconstructs -- and at times reinvents -- two ambiguous deaths: the first, that of General James Wolfe at the battle of Quebec in 1759; the second, in 1849, that of George Parkman, an eccentric Boston brahmin whose murder by an impecunious Harvard professor in 1849 was a grisly reproach to the moral sanctity of his society. Out of these stories -- with all of their bizarre coincidences and contradictions -- Schama creates a dazzling and supremely vital work of historical imagination.

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