The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden AgeKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 8 dec 1997 - 720 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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... common resources and our common might , for if you yield only slightly the sea will take all . " Describing one such emergency , he painted a picture of civic altruism and common purpose that remained the official ideal of the Dutch ...
... common resources and our common might , for if you yield only slightly the sea will take all . " Describing one such emergency , he painted a picture of civic altruism and common purpose that remained the official ideal of the Dutch ...
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... common defense between the signatory states , each of which remained sovereign within the federation ( bondgenootschap ) so formed . It made provision for no common institutions of government , the States General being empowered to ...
... common defense between the signatory states , each of which remained sovereign within the federation ( bondgenootschap ) so formed . It made provision for no common institutions of government , the States General being empowered to ...
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... common , if unevenly distributed patrimony , and that the middling and common people quite as much as the elite needed warning of the dangers of drink and gluttony before they incurred the inevitable wages of sin . Was that assumption ...
... common , if unevenly distributed patrimony , and that the middling and common people quite as much as the elite needed warning of the dangers of drink and gluttony before they incurred the inevitable wages of sin . Was that assumption ...
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| Titel | The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age |
| Auteur | Simon Schama |
| Editie | geïllustreerd, herdruk |
| Uitgever | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1997 |
| ISBN | 0679781242, 9780679781240 |
| Lengte | 720 pagina's |
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