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 353
... tulip futures quickened . By early 1637 , the height of the speculation , the point of the purchase had long since ceased to be a tulip bulb and instead had become a negotiable piece of paper with a notional delivery date upon it , like ...
... tulip futures quickened . By early 1637 , the height of the speculation , the point of the purchase had long since ceased to be a tulip bulb and instead had become a negotiable piece of paper with a notional delivery date upon it , like ...
Pagina 354
... tulip was always anthropo- morphized as male ) sprang up everywhere . General Bol and Admiral Pottebacker were not , then , named for military heroes but rather admiral and general tulips named for the growers Pieter Bol of Haarlem and ...
... tulip was always anthropo- morphized as male ) sprang up everywhere . General Bol and Admiral Pottebacker were not , then , named for military heroes but rather admiral and general tulips named for the growers Pieter Bol of Haarlem and ...
Pagina 363
... tulip fanciers do their business within an outsize fool's hat reminiscent of the hats that make up the bizarre habitat of Pieter Bruegel's print on Pride . For its inn sign , the hat pavilion flies a kermis flag proclaiming it to be ...
... tulip fanciers do their business within an outsize fool's hat reminiscent of the hats that make up the bizarre habitat of Pieter Bruegel's print on Pride . For its inn sign , the hat pavilion flies a kermis flag proclaiming it to be ...
Inhoudsopgave
CHAPTER | 51 |
Scripture | 93 |
Stygian fires and aqua fortis | 188 |
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