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 194
... tobacco growers ) any kind of moral implication . In 1636 , for example , the States of Utrecht in effect subsidized the growers by abolishing all duties on leaf tobacco destined for export to the spinneries of Holland , and in the next ...
... tobacco growers ) any kind of moral implication . In 1636 , for example , the States of Utrecht in effect subsidized the growers by abolishing all duties on leaf tobacco destined for export to the spinneries of Holland , and in the next ...
Pagina 195
... tobacco were the Devil's food , the church had failed to stigmatize their use as moral uncleanness . Indeed , what vexed the predikants was the general evidence that , for the most part , smoking and drinking — with humanist moderation ...
... tobacco were the Devil's food , the church had failed to stigmatize their use as moral uncleanness . Indeed , what vexed the predikants was the general evidence that , for the most part , smoking and drinking — with humanist moderation ...
Pagina 196
... tobacco and the efforts expended to make it agreeable to the palate as well as the nostrils suggests that for the earlier part of the seventeenth century it was unclear whether tobacco was a drug , a food or a poison . Chewing tobacco ...
... tobacco and the efforts expended to make it agreeable to the palate as well as the nostrils suggests that for the earlier part of the seventeenth century it was unclear whether tobacco was a drug , a food or a poison . Chewing tobacco ...
Inhoudsopgave
CHAPTER | 51 |
Scripture | 93 |
Stygian fires and aqua fortis | 188 |
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