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Dead certainties

Hardcover • 1991 • English

Dead certainties: (Unwarrented speculations)

By Simon Schama

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About the book

Like his The Embarrassment of Riches and the bestselling Citizens, Simon Schama's latest book is both history and literature of immense stylishness and ambition. But Dead Certainties goes beyond these more conventional histories to address the deeper enigmas that confront a student of the past. In order to do so, Schama reconstructs -- and at times reinvents -- two ambiguous deaths: the first, that of General James Wolfe at the battle of Quebec in 1759; the second, in 1849, that of George Parkma...Show more

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1991

Language

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Original title

Dead certainties

Format

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