The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden AgeKnopf, 1987 - 698 pagina's Schama explores the mysterious contradictions of the Dutch nation that invented itself from the ground up, attained an unprecedented level of affluence, and lived in constant dread of being corrupted by happiness. Drawing on a vast array of period documents and sumptuously reproduced art, Schama re-creates in precise detail a nation's mental state. He tells of bloody uprisings and beached whales, of the cult of hygiene and the plague of tobacco, of thrifty housewives and profligate tulip-speculators. He tells us how the Dutch celebrated themselves and how they were slandered by their enemies. "History on the grand scale...An ambitious portrait of one of the most remarkable episodes in modern history."--New York Times "Wonderfully inclusive; with wit and intense curiosity he teases out meaning from every aspect of Dutch seventeenth-century life."--Robert Hughes |
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... force to protect their monopoly in the Indies , advocates of domestic indus- trial protection like Slingsby Bethel , who spoke for the British clothiers resentful at the undercutting of Leiden and of the Dutch passing off Wiltshire and ...
... force to protect their monopoly in the Indies , advocates of domestic indus- trial protection like Slingsby Bethel , who spoke for the British clothiers resentful at the undercutting of Leiden and of the Dutch passing off Wiltshire and ...
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... Force in the hands of others was consistently portrayed as an infringement on the laws of nature ; force in their own hands was , however , a defense of freedom . Such , alas , is the casuistry of nationalisms that suppose themselves to ...
... Force in the hands of others was consistently portrayed as an infringement on the laws of nature ; force in their own hands was , however , a defense of freedom . Such , alas , is the casuistry of nationalisms that suppose themselves to ...
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... forces of soiling that the Dutch were required to subdue and expunge ? While the Calvinists pretended to a monopoly of ... force their heathen idolatry down the throats of the pious . ( In colloquial Dutch , the rag mop was also known as ...
... forces of soiling that the Dutch were required to subdue and expunge ? While the Calvinists pretended to a monopoly of ... force their heathen idolatry down the throats of the pious . ( In colloquial Dutch , the rag mop was also known as ...
Inhoudsopgave
CHAPTER | 51 |
Scripture | 93 |
Stygian fires and aqua fortis | 188 |
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