Review: The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
Gebruikersrecensie - Steve - GoodreadsWonderful telling if the Dutch Golden Age, unfortunately with too little on the theological underpinnings. Nevertheless, it's a wealth and store of pictures, facts and narrative. Volledige recensie lezen
Review: The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
Gebruikersrecensie - Julie - GoodreadsSchama covers in amazing detail the culture and history of the Netherlands during the peak of its Golden Age in the seventeenth century. He provides great insight on some of the origins of the traits ... Volledige recensie lezen
Review: The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
Gebruikersrecensie - Matt - GoodreadsI knew Schama from his A History of Britain series via BBC/History and I have been interested about the Golden Age of the Dutch Republic, so that's what brought me to this book. My usual history ... Volledige recensie lezen
Review: The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
Gebruikersrecensie - Katie - GoodreadsThis is a really fun book that explores the Golden Age of the Netherlands (predominantly the 17th century) and its culture - as someone else here put it neatly, it's a book about how the Dutch became ... Volledige recensie lezen
Review: The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
Gebruikersrecensie - Montez - GoodreadsWonderfully rich detail - a sumptuous read for the history buff! Volledige recensie lezen
Review: The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
Gebruikersrecensie - Michelle - GoodreadsA rather laborious, but fascinating, read. Insightful about the history, people, and culture--- especially in the 17th century. Schama does not shrink from any topic he thinks relevant; his spectrum ... Volledige recensie lezen
Review: The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
Gebruikersrecensie - Edie Meidav - GoodreadsSchama has the gift of making the distant proximate, the unthinkable possible. So far I especially like the chapter on the Dutch tendency to imagine penal punishment. I am not the first to say this, but he is one of our most gifted historians. Volledige recensie lezen
Review: The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
Gebruikersrecensie - Michael - GoodreadsI enjoyed this look in life and economics in Dutch golden age. The details provided allow for a fascinating glimpse in the day-to-day life a people for wealth came easy, but was treated with suspicion ... Volledige recensie lezen
Review: The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
Gebruikersrecensie - Joe - GoodreadsThis is much more of a dense academic tome than the trade book it might at first appear to be; I wonder how many copies are read beyond page 100. However, this is still wonderfully detailed and ... Volledige recensie lezen
Review: The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
Gebruikersrecensie - Karen Tannenbaum - GoodreadsIt has been a long time since I read this, but very interesting history of Netherlandish econ. Volledige recensie lezen
