A History Of Britain, Simon Schama
A History Of Britain, Simon Schama
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A History Of Britain
Volume 2 - The British Wars 1603-1776

Author: Simon Schama

Narrator: Timothy West

Unabridged: 10 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/01/2004

Synopsis

Timothy West reads the second volume of Simon Schama’s compelling chronicle of the British Isles. The British wars began on the morning of 23 July 1637, heralding two hundred years of battles waged within and away from our isles. Most would be driven by religious or political conviction, as Republicans and Royalists, Catholics and Protestants, Tories and Whigs, and colonialists and natives vied for supremacy. Of those battles not fought on home territory, a great number took place across Europe, America, India and also at sea. Schama’s examination of this turbulent period reveals how the British people eventually united in imperial enterprise, forming what he calls ‘Britannia Incorporated’. The story of that change evokes the memory of such enduringly influential people as Oliver Cromwell, as well as lesser known but equally extraordinary individuals. A story of revolution and reaction, progress and catastrophe, this is a vivid account of two centuries which changed Britain.

About Simon Schama

Sir Simon Schama's award-winning books, which have been translated into twenty-three languages, include The Embarrassment of Riches, Citizens, Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt's Eyes, A History of Britain, The Power of Art, Rough Crossings, The American Future, The Face of Britain and The Story of the Jews. His art columns for the New Yorker won the National Magazine Award for criticism and his journalism has appeared regularly in the Guardian and the Financial Times, where he is Contributing Editor. He has written and presented more than fifty films for the BBC on subjects as diverse as Tolstoy and American politics, and he co-presented the landmark series on the history of world art, Civilisations. Most recently, his History of Now series aired on BBC2 in November–December 2022. Schama lives in New York and is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University. Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations is his twentieth book.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrew on March 12, 2021

The second instalment in Simon Schama’s erudite commentary on the history of Britain does, as the title suggests, cover an awful lot of wars. Most often the Britons are fighting amongst themselves, but there’s also room for significant conflicts in India and America. And in Ireland, Oliver Cromwell......more

Goodreads review by Redfox5 on October 20, 2016

When I'm given a book, even if nothing about it interests me, I hate giving it away without it being read. You never know what gem may lie inside. When this reached the top of my tbr pile, I was dreading it. Five hundred pages of British history that's not from my favorite period(The Tudors). I was......more

Goodreads review by Kirsten on March 15, 2008

I don't intend to make it a habit to put text books on this site, but this one happens to be the best one I've encountered, and the only one I've actually truly enjoyed reading. Schama, certainly a scholar, is a superb writer with a thorough understanding of his subject matter, in this case the hist......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan on March 14, 2010

Volume II of Simon Schama’s History of Britain purports itself as, “The Wars of the British, 1603-1776” (Volume I presumably compasses the preceding 56 hundred-odd years), but it is in truth, and of necessity, something more than that. While the martial conflicts of that age were certainly of centr......more

Goodreads review by Mike on March 10, 2024

Despite the huge amounts of history I've read, I've never been particularly interested in British history. I suppose it's always been all around me and at school appeared to be a procession of dry monarchs' lives which said nothing about the country itself, its people. I wrote a dissertation once on......more

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