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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... means concurred with throughout the governing patriciates of the Dutch cities , and especially not in Amsterdam . 10 From intensely divided camps of opinion and a lingering suspicion of Spain's intentions , the militant Calvinists . and ...
... means concurred with throughout the governing patriciates of the Dutch cities , and especially not in Amsterdam . 10 From intensely divided camps of opinion and a lingering suspicion of Spain's intentions , the militant Calvinists . and ...
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... means of supporting herself and her six children when their father died in 1692.61 At the age of thirty - eight , she set up as traveling midwife serving the impoverished isolated hamlets of the coastal and island villages near Hallum ...
... means of supporting herself and her six children when their father died in 1692.61 At the age of thirty - eight , she set up as traveling midwife serving the impoverished isolated hamlets of the coastal and island villages near Hallum ...
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... means drawn exclusively from the elite . The Dokkum patriciate would hardly have stretched far enough to have made ... mean achievement for a widow in a country town . And it seems likely that she had become something of an institution ...
... means drawn exclusively from the elite . The Dokkum patriciate would hardly have stretched far enough to have made ... mean achievement for a widow in a country town . And it seems likely that she had become something of an institution ...
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CHAPTER | 51 |
Scripture | 93 |
Stygian fires and aqua fortis | 188 |
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