Dead certainties: (unwarranted speculations)

Simon Schama

Granta Books, May 30, 1991 - Biography & Autobiography - 333 pages

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DEAD CERTAINTIES: Unwarranted Speculations

User Review  - Kirkus

Here Schama (Citizens, 1989, etc.; History/Harvard) compellingly re-creates two historic deaths, both linked to the Parkman dynasty of Boston, by these contrasting re-creations and explores "the ...

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User Review  - Othemts - LibraryThing

Schama writes an imaginative and illuminating history of two historical events: The death of General Wolfe in the Seven Years War and how it's perceived in popular culture and the murder of George ...

Contents

• At the Face of the Cliff: 3
• In Command: 21
• Deep in the Forest: 40

About the author

Simon Schama is a historian, educator, and writer. He was born in London, England on February 13, 1945. Schama earned a B.A. in history in 1966 from Cambridge University and later became a fellow of Christ College. Schama was a Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Brasenose College, Oxford from 1976 to 1980. He also was an Erasmus Lecturer in the civilization of the Netherlands at Harvard University in 1978, and from 1980 to 1993 he was Professor of History and Mellon Professor of the Social Sciences and Senior Associate at the Center for European Studies. Schama has been the Old Dominion Professor of Humanities at Columbia University since 1993, teaching in the history, art history and archaeology departments. Schama's 1977 book, Patriots and Liberators: Revolution in the Netherlands, 1780-1813, received the Wolfson Prize for history and the Leo Gershoy Memorial Prize of the American History Association. Another book, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, won the NCR Prize for Nonfiction. Schama also worked as an art critic for The New Yorker and has written historical and art documentaries for the BBC. In 2001 he received the CBE. In 2006 Schama earned the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction for Rough Crossings.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Dead certainties: (unwarranted speculations)
• Author: Simon Schama
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Granta Books, 1991
• ISBN: 0140142304, 9780140142303
• Length: 333 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography & Autobiography / Historical; Boston (Mass.); Death; Family & Relationships / Death, Grief, Bereavement; History / Historiography; Social Science / Death & Dying