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Simon Schama: A History of Britain (Special Edition) DVD
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Description: Simon Schama: A History of Britain (Special Edition) DVD. Stretching from the Stone Age to the year 2000 Simon Schama's Complete History of Britain does not pretend to be a definitive chronicle of the turbulent events which buffeted and shaped the British Isles. What Schama does do however is tell the story in vivid and gripping narrative terms free of the fustiness of traditional academe personalising key historical events by examining the major characters at the centre of them. Not all historians would approve of the history depicted here as shaped principally by the actions of great men and women rather than by more abstract developments but Schama's way of telling it is a good deal more enthralling as a result. Schama successfully gives lie to the idea that the history of Britain has been moderate and temperate passing down the generations as stately as a galleon taking on board sensible ideas but steering clear of sillier revolutionary ones. Nonsense. Schama retells British history the way it was--as bloody convulsive precari
