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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... moral geography . So that the frightening experience inflicted , in extremis , on the " patient " was designed to be ... moral reclamation . And these " patients , " once recovered , were meant to recognize the peculiar sort of moral ...
... moral geography . So that the frightening experience inflicted , in extremis , on the " patient " was designed to be ... moral reclamation . And these " patients , " once recovered , were meant to recognize the peculiar sort of moral ...
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... moral ambiguity of materialism surfaced in an attempt to patrol manners in the best interest of the safety of the community . But while the tensions of a capitalism that endeavored to make itself moral were the same whether in sixteenth ...
... moral ambiguity of materialism surfaced in an attempt to patrol manners in the best interest of the safety of the community . But while the tensions of a capitalism that endeavored to make itself moral were the same whether in sixteenth ...
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... morals , one in the inscriptio and another in the subscriptio.59 The emblem reads , literally , " Too sharp makes jagged . " The primary moral argues against the decay that produced the verminous swarm , but the secondary , more ...
... morals , one in the inscriptio and another in the subscriptio.59 The emblem reads , literally , " Too sharp makes jagged . " The primary moral argues against the decay that produced the verminous swarm , but the secondary , more ...
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CHAPTER | 51 |
Scripture | 93 |
Stygian fires and aqua fortis | 188 |
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