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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... social and political history that belongs more to the historical profession than to historical reality . In the Netherlands ( as elsewhere in republican Europe ) , the two were so intimately related that the ideal of the good family was ...
... social and political history that belongs more to the historical profession than to historical reality . In the Netherlands ( as elsewhere in republican Europe ) , the two were so intimately related that the ideal of the good family was ...
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... social exploration . Their authors had the authentic eighteenth- century compulsion to acquire , accumulate and codify information on every kind of physical and social phenomenon in their country . Where some natural scientists made ...
... social exploration . Their authors had the authentic eighteenth- century compulsion to acquire , accumulate and codify information on every kind of physical and social phenomenon in their country . Where some natural scientists made ...
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... social groups could cohere . On the other hand , the separation of the officer corps- dominated by the patriciate - from the rest of the ranks tended to strengthen rather than weaken the social stratification , which by the 1670s was ...
... social groups could cohere . On the other hand , the separation of the officer corps- dominated by the patriciate - from the rest of the ranks tended to strengthen rather than weaken the social stratification , which by the 1670s was ...
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