The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden AgeUniversity of California Press, 1988 - 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."--Amazon |
Inhoudsopgave
CHAPTER | 51 |
Scripture | 93 |
Stygian fires and aqua fortis | 188 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 221 |
CHAPTER FIVE | 289 |
I invest he speculates they gamble | 343 |
Temptations and terrors | 430 |
CHAPTER SEVEN | 481 |
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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