Schama, Simon, CBE

Rough Crossings

Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution

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Produktbeschreibung

Rough Crossings is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 626615
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 206mm x 128mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780099536079
• ISBN-10: 0099536072
• Artikelnr.: 26106851

Autorenporträt

Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University. His award-winning books, translated into fifteen languages, include Citizens, Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt's Eyes, A History of Britain, The Power of Art, Rough Crossings, The American Future, The Face of Britain and The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words (1000 BCE - 1492). His art columns for the New Yorker won the National Magazine Award for criticism and his journalism has appeared regularly in the Guardian and the Financial Times where he is Contributing Editor. He has written and presented more than fifty films for the BBC on subjects as diverse as Tolstoy, American politics, and The Story of the Jews and is co-presenter of a new landmark series on the history of world art, Civilisations.

Rezensionen

This brilliant book by the leading historian of our times about a subject of great significance will delight professional historians and entrance the reading public. Rough Crossings succeeds in all respects. It is a 'tour de force' and a landmark in historical scholarship Times Higher Education Supplement