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...ready for the daily double if you responded: 1) Who is Claude Francois Denecourt, nicknamed "le Silvain"? 2) What is Mons Pilatus in the Swiss Alps? and 3) What is Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama? Author of iconoclastic, groundbreaking studies of the French Revolution (Citizens) and the Netherlands during its 17th century Golden Age (The Embarrassment of Riches), Schama is one of those rare, imaginative historians who do more than impose order on the known past. He introduces readers to a kind of yesteryear they never dreamed existed...
...Schama is that academic exoticus, a professor without a Ph.D.; he has said, "All I want to do is share the past." Like his earlier masterworks, Landscape and Memory is studded with apt illustrations from art and literature, and its pages crackle with epigram and, at times, a dry Gibbonian wit. The book also has a message of rebuke for those multiculturalists who despise Western civilization as the archenemy of nature and the world's primary despoiler of pristine wilds. "Even the landscapes that we suppose to be most free of our culture," Schama writes, "may turn out, on closer...
Historical Study B-37, "The Baroque: Forms of Authority in 17th-century Europe," is vanished with much-mourned Simon M. Schama, who has moved to Columbia University...
Historical Study B-37, "The Baroque: Forms of Authority in 17th-century Europe," is vanished with much-mourned Simon M. Schama, who has moved to Columbia University...
With this in mind, Schama was given permission for a one year leave of absence, a right Ozment says is granted to all faculty members who are on the verge of resigning...