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An edition of Dead certainties (1991)

Dead certainties

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1st Vintage Books ed.

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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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English
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333

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Subjects

Death and burial, Death, Biographies, Histoire, Aspect social, Mort et sépulture, Mort, Moorden, Biography, History, Boston (mass.), biography, Death, social aspects, Parkman, francis, 1823-1893, Parkman, george, 1790-1849, Historiography, Trials (Homicide), Social aspects, Fallstudiensammlung

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George Parkman, James Wolfe (1727-1759), John W. Webster

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1992, Granta Books in association with Penguin Books
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1992, Vintage Books, Random House of Canada
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1991, Knopf
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Dead certainties: unwarranted speculations
1991, Knopf
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1991, Granta Books, Penguin
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-333).
Originally published: 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 1991.

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Dewey Decimal Class
974.4/6103/0922, B
Library of Congress
F73.25 .S33 1992, HV6534.B6

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Pagination
333 p., [1] folded leaf of plates :
Number of pages
333

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OL1566669M
ISBN 10
0679736131
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91050712
OCLC/WorldCat
91050712, 25009499
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5257
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