Schlagwort: Simon Schama

(Militant International Review, No. 43, Spring 1990) Published by Viking, 1989, £20 Reviewed by Peter Taaffe In last year’s avalanche of literature on the 200th anniversary of the French revolution, Simon Schama’s book Citizens was singled out by bourgeois reviewers. Little wonder for, as he admits, he adopts „the unfashionable top-down“ rather than „bottom-up“ approach.…