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Simon Schama’s latest book, “Rough Crossings,” offers compelling support to the argument that for a significant portion of North Americans—namely the tens of thousands of African slaves in the British Colonies at the time—it was the British, not the American colonists, who offered a surer shot at freedom...
...Rough Crossings” is Schama’s first book since the third volume of “Britain” came out in 2002, and it’s a return to form of the highest order. Instead of resting on his laurels and keeping to well-worn historiographical ruts, Schama seems to be using his fame to push a far more idiosyncratic project...
...Rough Crossings By Simon Schama Ecco...
...Montreux: Beyond the Blues The annual Montreux music bash is much more than just jazz The Gaza Strip's Diamond in the Rough Dare to discover the Gaza Strip's most elegant - and peaceful - refuge A Taste of Sichuan London's Ba Shan restaurant serves small dishes inspired by the street food of Sichuan Making a Spectacle Have your glasses designed exclusively for you Dutch Treat Amsterdam's pivotal role in the emergence of conceptual art In the audience at the original London show, the British construction magnate Robert McAlpine was so enchanted by the stage set that he decided...
...Montreux: Beyond the Blues The annual Montreux music bash is much more than just jazz The Gaza Strip's Diamond in the Rough Dare to discover the Gaza Strip's most elegant - and peaceful - refuge A Taste of Sichuan London's Ba Shan restaurant serves small dishes inspired by the street food of Sichuan Making a Spectacle Have your glasses designed exclusively for you Dutch Treat Amsterdam's pivotal role in the emergence of conceptual art He mischievously describes his style as "mediterranean digital baroque," referencing his origins, his artisan plundering of the past and his love of computer games...