The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden AgeCollins, 1987 - 698 pagina's This text explores the enigma of 17th-century Holland, a nation that attained an unprecedented level of affluence, yet lived in constant dread of being corrupted by prosperity. |
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... Witt was too blithe in his assumption that naval power could be used prophylactically - to forestall general conflict rather than provoke it . The desired equilibrium by which a certain level of naval force was the guaranteeing ...
... Witt was too blithe in his assumption that naval power could be used prophylactically - to forestall general conflict rather than provoke it . The desired equilibrium by which a certain level of naval force was the guaranteeing ...
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... Witt and his brother were slaughtered in the manner of a political oblation , so that the nation could survive , the sacrifice seems to have been heeded . For once they were gone , the dread of collective punishment was replaced with ...
... Witt and his brother were slaughtered in the manner of a political oblation , so that the nation could survive , the sacrifice seems to have been heeded . For once they were gone , the dread of collective punishment was replaced with ...
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... Witt , 413-16 . De Witt's treatise was published as Elementa Curvarum Linearum ( Amsterdam , 1659 ) . 17 Quoted in Charles Wilson , Profit and Power ( London , 1957 ) , 107 . 18 Ibid . , 20 ; See G. Edmundson , Anglo - Dutch Rivalry ...
... Witt , 413-16 . De Witt's treatise was published as Elementa Curvarum Linearum ( Amsterdam , 1659 ) . 17 Quoted in Charles Wilson , Profit and Power ( London , 1957 ) , 107 . 18 Ibid . , 20 ; See G. Edmundson , Anglo - Dutch Rivalry ...
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