![]() ![]() ![]() 2 It is based on Schamas book of the same title, 3 which is being published in three volumes. It was broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two in September 2013 1 and in the United States on PBS in March and April 2014. 40,000 first printing BOMC main selection. The Story of the Jews is a television series, in five parts, presented by British historian Simon Schama. Schama's startling revisionist synthesis is enriched by over 200 illustrations bringing popular arts and revolutionary fervor to life. If Schama ( The Embarrassment of Riches ) is correct, the fiscal havoc of Louis XVI's regime did not have revolution as its inevitable outcome, but a cult of violence, endorsed by romanticism, became the engine of historical change in a country gripped by paranoia. The privileged classes, he argues, were open to new blood, and a ``capitalist nobility'' deeply involved in industrial enterprise supported technological innovation. The main means of doing this are spectacle. His contention is that the Revolution did not produce a ``patriotic culture of citizenship'' but was preceded by one. The Citizen becomes collectivized (Schama often uses 20th-Century concepts in describing 18th-Century France) and is set against the Uncitizen. See search resultsfor this author Simon Schama(Author), Frederick Davidson(Reader) 4. The Old Regime, far from being moribund on the eve of the French Revolution, bristled with signs of dynamism and energy, writes Schama in this sprawling, provocative, sometimes infuriating chronicle that stands much conventional wisdom on its head. Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution MP3 CD Unabridged, by Simon Schama (Author) Visit Amazons Simon Schama Page Find all the books, read about the author, and more. ![]()
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