{"product_id":"citizens-simon-schama","title":"Citizens — Simon Schama","description":"\u003cp\u003eSchama's history of the French Revolution is deliberately counter to the Marxist interpretation — he is interested in politics, ideas, and contingency rather than class conflict and structural inevitability. The result is the most vivid account of the Revolution in English, written with novelistic detail and a refusal to let the outcome determine the narrative. Robespierre is terrifying precisely because Schama shows him as someone who began with genuine conviction. The book is also a history of how the Revolution imagined itself — through spectacle, rhetoric, and the performance of virtue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"epoch-endorsement\"\u003eWinner of the \u003cstrong\u003eWolfson History Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e. 'The most brilliant, readable and provocative history of the French Revolution I have ever encountered.' — \u003cem\u003eJohn Mortimer\u003c\/em\u003e. 'A masterpiece of historical writing.' — \u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Epoch Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53734529663303,"sku":null,"price":19.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0967\/9152\/7751\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_da0cf5d0-a8c3-41ae-b382-31bb4d8595f0.jpg?v=1776627681","url":"https:\/\/www.epochbooks.co.uk\/products\/citizens-simon-schama","provider":"Epoch Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}