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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Pagina 439
... girls would line up on either side of a room - perhaps a barn or weigh house - and a broker would move between the lines cataloguing the virtues of available partners and attempting to negotiate matches . When a match was successfully ...
... girls would line up on either side of a room - perhaps a barn or weigh house - and a broker would move between the lines cataloguing the virtues of available partners and attempting to negotiate matches . When a match was successfully ...
Pagina 472
... girls , and run by a procuress - cum - hostess . Gaming - cards , backgammon or dice - was also an important part of the recreation , so that the hostess profited directly from liquor and gambling and indirectly from sex by charging the ...
... girls , and run by a procuress - cum - hostess . Gaming - cards , backgammon or dice - was also an important part of the recreation , so that the hostess profited directly from liquor and gambling and indirectly from sex by charging the ...
Pagina 511
... girls attend to their proper domain , though , the little men are made to understand their duties in defending the commonwealth . The girls play with dolls While boys show a braver spirit The girl goes to the crib While the boy lets the ...
... girls attend to their proper domain , though , the little men are made to understand their duties in defending the commonwealth . The girls play with dolls While boys show a braver spirit The girl goes to the crib While the boy lets the ...
Inhoudsopgave
CHAPTER | 51 |
Scripture | 93 |
Stygian fires and aqua fortis | 188 |
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