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 |
Vanuit het boek
Resultaten 1-3 van 67
Pagina 30
... turned out this sort of epic were the first entrepreneurs of armchair calamity . Bontekoe's text was reprinted eight times . in fifty years and seventy times before 1800 , making it one of the best - sellers on the Dutch popular market ...
... turned out this sort of epic were the first entrepreneurs of armchair calamity . Bontekoe's text was reprinted eight times . in fifty years and seventy times before 1800 , making it one of the best - sellers on the Dutch popular market ...
Pagina 276
... turned inwards to exalted forms of mystical faith , following the shock of the invasion . Sermons and poems ranted of the apocalypse , of the seven - headed beast with ten horns . 122 The book of Ezekiel turned England and France into ...
... turned inwards to exalted forms of mystical faith , following the shock of the invasion . Sermons and poems ranted of the apocalypse , of the seven - headed beast with ten horns . 122 The book of Ezekiel turned England and France into ...
Pagina 310
... turned merchant , or merchant turned landowner and rentier , each eagerly adopted the manners of the grander group and extended his acquis- itiveness accordingly . If the consumption of the Dutch has generally been represented as incon ...
... turned merchant , or merchant turned landowner and rentier , each eagerly adopted the manners of the grander group and extended his acquis- itiveness accordingly . If the consumption of the Dutch has generally been represented as incon ...
Inhoudsopgave
CHAPTER | 51 |
Scripture | 93 |
Stygian fires and aqua fortis | 188 |
Copyright | |
16 andere gedeelten niet getoond
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the ... Simon Schama Gedeeltelijke weergave - 1988 |
The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the ... Simon Schama Fragmentweergave - 1997 |
The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the ... Simon Schama Fragmentweergave - 1987 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Amsterdam Amsterdam town Batavian became Beverwijck burgher Calvinist Cats's chambers of rhetoric cheese child Christian church commercial common course court Delft domestic Dordrecht drinking Dutch culture Dutch Republic early eighteenth century emblem engraving especially example Fatherland feasts folly French genre girls godly guilders Haarlem Hague Harvard University historian Holland Houghton Library household humanist husband Jacob Cats Jan Miense Molenaer Jan Steen Johan kind labor land least Leiden less magistrates maid manner marriage merchant moral moralists mother Netherlandish Netherlands painting patrician patriotic peace Pieter popular predikants prints prosperity provinces regents Renaissance Republic rich Roemer Roemer Visscher Romeyn de Hooghe Rotterdam scenes scripture seems seventeenth century social Spanish Spinhuis Stadholder stuivers symbolic tion tobacco town hall trade tradition tulip turned Utrecht virtue Visscher whale whores wife William the Silent wine Witt woman women worldly Zeeland