The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden AgeSchama 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 122
then, the book of a collective identity, was as capacious as it was versatile. By
synthesizing the “ancient” seventeen-hundred-year-old history of Batavian
freedom with the notion of a national rebirth through ordeal, exodus and
redemption, ...
then, the book of a collective identity, was as capacious as it was versatile. By
synthesizing the “ancient” seventeen-hundred-year-old history of Batavian
freedom with the notion of a national rebirth through ordeal, exodus and
redemption, ...
Pagina 178
And this heavy emphasis on collective ritual was as true for the humblest
gatherings as for the grandest. William Aglionby noted that each of the
neighborhood (wijken) communities that represented the simplest of all the
corporate institutions ...
And this heavy emphasis on collective ritual was as true for the humblest
gatherings as for the grandest. William Aglionby noted that each of the
neighborhood (wijken) communities that represented the simplest of all the
corporate institutions ...
Pagina 276
And at the same time, the terror of death, both individual and collective, was
averted by concentrating a killing on the figure who had presumed to incarnate
the stadholderless commonwealth, the fatherless Fatherland. And if de Witt and
his ...
And at the same time, the terror of death, both individual and collective, was
averted by concentrating a killing on the figure who had presumed to incarnate
the stadholderless commonwealth, the fatherless Fatherland. And if de Witt and
his ...
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Gebruikersrecensie - robeik - LibraryThingThis is a BIG book. Strap yourself in for a word and picture journey through the Netherlands of the 15th and 16th century. This is no history book; you are supposed to be somewhat familiar with it. An ... Volledige review lezen
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Gebruikersrecensie - jmoncton - LibraryThingSchama covers in amazing detail the culture and history of the Netherlands during the peak of its Golden Age in the seventeenth century. He provides great insight on some of the origins of the traits ... Volledige review lezen
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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age |
| Auteur | Simon Schama |
| Editie | geïllustreerd, herdruk |
| Uitgever | Vintage Books, 1997 |
| ISBN | 0679781242, 9780679781240 |
| Lengte | 698 pagina's |
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