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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... seems that the Amsterdam magistracy paid little heed to the example , referring instead to an indigenous Dutch tradition of reform . In 1530 , Gouda had proposed a House of Chastise- ment for delinquent youth , and the poet , scholar ...
... seems that the Amsterdam magistracy paid little heed to the example , referring instead to an indigenous Dutch tradition of reform . In 1530 , Gouda had proposed a House of Chastise- ment for delinquent youth , and the poet , scholar ...
Pagina 438
... seems rash to speculate on the basis of such slight evidence , these findings seem consistent with the impressions of foreign visitors : a strikingly free and unpatrolled playfulness between the sexes , together with a strict attention ...
... seems rash to speculate on the basis of such slight evidence , these findings seem consistent with the impressions of foreign visitors : a strikingly free and unpatrolled playfulness between the sexes , together with a strict attention ...
Pagina 532
... seems to have been in no rush to accept them as an obvious improvement on her own hands . It also seems unlikely that she knew of , much less encouraged , the daring suggestion made by one book that mothers might go through labor more ...
... seems to have been in no rush to accept them as an obvious improvement on her own hands . It also seems unlikely that she knew of , much less encouraged , the daring suggestion made by one book that mothers might go through labor more ...
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CHAPTER | 51 |
Scripture | 93 |
Stygian fires and aqua fortis | 188 |
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