Simon Schama

26 BOOKS

Simon Schama

About

Sir Simon Michael Schama is an English historian and television presenter. He specialises in art history, Dutch history, Jewish history, and French history. As of January 2026 he is a professor of history and art history at Columbia University.

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Seven Types of Ambiguity

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

Little Dorrit

Cocktails with a Curator

The Mirror & the Light

Partition Voices

God's Chinese Son

The Ants

Persuasion

Enemies and Neighbors

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The Emergence of Modern Afghanistan

Empireland

A Certain World

Memorial Drive

Jews Don’t Count

The Paranoid Style in American Politics

The Sea Around Us

The Armada

The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci

American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence

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Exit West: A Novel

The Sellout

Empire and Information

Albert and the Whale

Napoleon: a Life in Gardens and Shadows

James Joyce and Italo Svevo