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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... Rich Man , in which the character Overvloed , in the guise of an abundantly endowed serving maid , but wearing blinkers , contends for the soul of the rich man with Conscience and Scriptural Wisdom ( " an old and honorable pastor ...
... Rich Man , in which the character Overvloed , in the guise of an abundantly endowed serving maid , but wearing blinkers , contends for the soul of the rich man with Conscience and Scriptural Wisdom ( " an old and honorable pastor ...
Pagina 327
... Rich Man ) , published in 1550 , and the insis- tent strictures of his Zedekunst dat is Wellevenskunst ( The Art of Morals , the Art of Right Living ) -next to Erasmus's works , the Bible of the Dutch humanists— were wholly in keeping ...
... Rich Man ) , published in 1550 , and the insis- tent strictures of his Zedekunst dat is Wellevenskunst ( The Art of Morals , the Art of Right Living ) -next to Erasmus's works , the Bible of the Dutch humanists— were wholly in keeping ...
Pagina 579
... rich , it is no less true , as both predikants and humanist magis- trates emphasized , that the rich needed the poor for the quiet of their souls . The philanthropic reinforcement of social dependence found odd echoes in the common ...
... rich , it is no less true , as both predikants and humanist magis- trates emphasized , that the rich needed the poor for the quiet of their souls . The philanthropic reinforcement of social dependence found odd echoes in the common ...
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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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