Author

Books by Simon Schama

Simon Schama is a British historian and professor at Columbia University, where he has taught since 1993. He is one of the most prolific and publicly prominent historians of his generation, having written on Dutch art and culture, American history, the history of the Jews, and landscape and memory, as well as presenting numerous historical documentary series for the BBC. Citizens, published in 1989, established his international reputation and set the terms of a historical debate about the French Revolution that is still active. His prose style — densely detailed, novelistic, unapologetically opinionated — has made him both celebrated and criticized within the academic profession.