Dead Certainties: (Unwarranted Speculations)

Name: Dead Certainties: (Unwarranted Speculations)
Brand: Granta Books
SKU: 9781847087324
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By (author): Simon Schama

On 13 September 1759, General James Wolfe, having led the British troops up the St Lawrence to victory in the Battle of Quebec, died on the Heights of Abraham. Schama examines this death, and how Wolfe was made to die again - through the spectacular painting by Benjamin West, and through the writings of the 19th-century historian Francis Parkman. Schama's second death concerns Parkman's uncle, George Parkman of Harvard Medical College, who disappeared in 1849 in mysterious circumstances and who was rumoured to have been murdered by a colleague. Through these incidents, Schama sheds light on the writing of history, the history of history, and the relationship of 'story' to 'history'. See more

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Weight: 419g
Dimensions: 153 x 234mm
Publication Date: 04 Apr 2013
Publisher: Granta Books
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781847087324

About Simon Schama

SIMON SCHAMA is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University and the prize-winning author of fourteen books which have been translated into twenty languages. They include The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age; Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution; Landscape and Memory; Rembrandt's Eyes; the History of Britain trilogy; and Rough Crossings which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has written widely on music art politics and food for the Guardian Vogue and the New Yorker. His award-winning television work as writer and presenter for the BBC stretches over two decades and includes the fifteen-part A History of Britain the eight-part Emmy-winning Power of Art and The American Future: A History.