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A book about the history of London
British History (all three volumes) (Simon Schama, UK) E-book online disk download and free online reading.

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Extraction code: d7bh Title: British History (all three volumes)

Author: [England] Simon Schama

Translator: Peng Ling

Douban score: 7.4

Publishing House: CITIC Publishing House

Publication year: 20 18-7

Page count: 332

Content introduction:

Simon Schama, the winner of the wolfson Prize and the W.H. Smith Prize for Literature in history, takes you into the English story in a grand and concise style. From the Roman invasion to the Norman conquest, from the Black Death to Elizabeth's glory, from the glorious revolution to the two world wars, the war and peace in English history seem to repeat itself with his story. People and scenes jump on the slide of history. The arduous course of pioneers of modern civilization is moving.

About the author:

Simon Schama is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society of Literature. /kloc-0 was born in London in 1945, graduated from Cambridge University with honors at the age of 2/kloc-0, and later taught at Cambridge University and Oxford University. From 65438 to 0977, he published his first monograph, Patriots and Liberators, and won the wolfson Prize in History. 1980, he got a chair at Harvard University and then "transferred" to Columbia University as a professor. During his stay in the United States, he published many academic works one after another, which attracted great attention from the academic circles and was recognized by a large number of readers. Among them, The Dilemma of Wealth (1987) and Citizen (1989) won the The New York Times Book of the Year Award, and Landscape and Memory (1995) won the W.H. Smith Literature Award.