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 66
... remained something of an anomaly in Dutch public life , reserved for the ceremonies of signing treaties , entertaining visiting royalty and sustaining the somewhat ambiguous dynastic politics to which the House of Orange remained ...
... remained something of an anomaly in Dutch public life , reserved for the ceremonies of signing treaties , entertaining visiting royalty and sustaining the somewhat ambiguous dynastic politics to which the House of Orange remained ...
Pagina 106
... remained more culturally diverse and spiritually heterodox than Leiden did not lessen its importance as a crucible in which a self- consciously Netherlandish culture was being shaped . Karel van Mander , like the young Vondel , was a ...
... remained more culturally diverse and spiritually heterodox than Leiden did not lessen its importance as a crucible in which a self- consciously Netherlandish culture was being shaped . Karel van Mander , like the young Vondel , was a ...
Pagina 171
... remained , however , a panacea strictly for the few during the first half of the century , and even in the 1660s when enough tea was being shipped by the East India Company to send the price plummeting from a hundred guilders a pound to ...
... remained , however , a panacea strictly for the few during the first half of the century , and even in the 1660s when enough tea was being shipped by the East India Company to send the price plummeting from a hundred guilders a pound to ...
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The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the ... Simon Schama Gedeeltelijke weergave - 1988 |
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