by Simon Schama
Dead certainties: Unwarranted speculations
Nonfiction
Patriots and liberators: Revolution in the Netherlands, 1780–1813
Two Rothschilds and the Land of Israel
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
A History of Britain: Volume I
A History of Britain: Volume II
A History of Britain: Volume III
Hang-ups: Essays on Painting (Mostly)
Rough Crossings: The Slaves, the British, and the American Revolution
Simon Schama's Power of Art
The American Future: A History
Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writing on Politics, Ice Cream, Churchill, and My Mother
Credits
Cover artwork: background pattern and roundel by Zeev Raban, from The Song of Songs (published by Hasefer, Berlin 1923), reproduced by kind permission of the Doron and Winter family, Jerusalem.
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Copyright
Grateful acknowledgement is made to: Princeton University Press for permission to excerpt from The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry From Muslim and Christian Spain 950–1492 by Peter Cole; Gefen Publishing House for permission to excerpt from Grand Things to Write a Poem On: A Verse Autobiography of Shmuel Hanagid by Hillel Halkin; Schocken Books for permission to excerpt from Yehuda Halevi, by Hillel Halkin; The University of Alabama Press for permission to excerpt from Jewish Prince in Moslem Spain: Selected Poems of Samuel Ibn Nagrela, trans. Leon J. Weinberger; Oxford University Press, Inc. for permission to excerpt from Wine, Women and Death: Medieval Hebrew Poems on the Good Life, by Raymond P. Scheindlin.
THE STORY OF THE JEWS. Copyright © 2013 by Simon Schama.
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