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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... kind of symbiotic interdependence - at least in port cities like Amsterdam and Rotterdam . ( The Hague , as one might expect , generated another kind of prostitution , around the demi - monde fringes of the court and what might be ...
... kind of symbiotic interdependence - at least in port cities like Amsterdam and Rotterdam . ( The Hague , as one might expect , generated another kind of prostitution , around the demi - monde fringes of the court and what might be ...
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... kind of social church- and a more elastic one than the formally predominant religious denomination . Though it may rankle with those who would prefer to see divergent social groups stripped of mystifying commonalties and restored to ...
... kind of social church- and a more elastic one than the formally predominant religious denomination . Though it may rankle with those who would prefer to see divergent social groups stripped of mystifying commonalties and restored to ...
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... kind of diplomatic suicide . So their calculus of decreasing risk produced instead what might be called the defense of prudential con- tingency : barrier forts that the troops of the Republic manned inside the Austrian Netherlands ...
... kind of diplomatic suicide . So their calculus of decreasing risk produced instead what might be called the defense of prudential con- tingency : barrier forts that the troops of the Republic manned inside the Austrian Netherlands ...
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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 - 1987 |
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