A History of Britain - Volume 1

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<p>Change - sometimes gentle and subtle, sometimes shocking and violent - is the dynamic of Simon Schama's unapologetically personal and grippingly written history of Britain, especially the changes that wash over custom and habit, transforming our loyalties.</p><p>What makes or breaks a nation? To whom do we give our allegiance and why? And where do the boundaries of our community lie - in our hearth and home, our village or city, tribe or faith? What is Britain - one country or many? Has British history unfolded 'at the edge of the world' or right at the heart of it?</p><p>Schama delivers these themes in a form that is at once traditional and excitingly fresh. The great and the wicked are here - Becket and Thomas Cromwell, Robert the Bruce and Anne Boleyn - but so are countless more ordinary lives: an Irish monk waiting for the plague to kill him in his cell at Kilkenny; a small boy running through the streets of London to catch a glimpse of Elizabeth I.</p><p>The first in a series, this volume paints a rich and vivid portrait of the life of the British people and their nation.</p>

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<p>Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University. His award-winning books, translated into fifteen languages, include<i>Citizens,</i><i>Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt's Eyes,</i><i>A History of Britain,</i><i>The Power of Art,</i><i>Rough Crossings</i>,<i>The American Future, The Face of Britain</i>and<i>The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words (1000 BCE - 1492)</i>.</p><p>His art columns for the<i>New Yorker</i>won the National Magazine Award for criticism and his journalism has appeared regularly in the<i>Guardian</i>and the<i>Financial Times</i>where he is Contributing Editor. He has written and presented forty films for BBC2 on subjects as diverse as Tolstoy, American politics and John Donne.</p>

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