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Dead certainties : unwarranted speculations

Title: Dead certainties : unwarranted speculations / Simon Schama.
Author: Schama, Simon
Publication: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1991.

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Description

333 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations (some color); 20 cm

Summary

An experiment in historical narration: two true "tales"--Each involving a violent death, each linked to a great, tragic Boston dynasty, that of General James Wolfe, killed at the battle of Quebec in 1759 and the second, the death of George Parkman, eccentric Boston luminary. Both tales are linked by the fate of the dynasty of the Parkmans of Boston and by Schama's sense of the irrecoverable distance between events and their narration, of the death of certainty--Jacket.

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Biographies.
History.

Note

Rare Book copy: In original dust jacket.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-333).

Contents

The many deaths of General Wolfe. At the face of the cliff -- In command -- Deep in the forest -- On the heights of Abraham -- Death of a Harvard man. Honest sweat: the blacksmith's son -- Income: the pedestrian -- Enterprise: the janitor -- Debt: skyrocket Jack -- Taking stock: the prisoner and the public -- Accounts rendered: lawyers, doctors and other solid citizens -- Payment pending: the press, the preachers and the prisoner -- Settlements: the legatees.

ISBN

0679402136
9780679402138
0394222202
9780394222202

LCCN

90052902

OCLC

1030090549
on1030090549
SCSB-2856375

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