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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... whole project remains more eccentric than persuasive . I am especially grateful to Gary and Loekie Schwartz for their friendship , hospitality and enlightenment about things close to the heart of Dutch culture . A number of Dutch art ...
... whole project remains more eccentric than persuasive . I am especially grateful to Gary and Loekie Schwartz for their friendship , hospitality and enlightenment about things close to the heart of Dutch culture . A number of Dutch art ...
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... whole hours . " It was even possible , visitors noted , to spend time inside a huge , emptied cask , “ The Great Tun of Amsterdam , that could seat thirty - two comfortably for a whole day's amiable sozzling . " 134 Curiously , most of ...
... whole hours . " It was even possible , visitors noted , to spend time inside a huge , emptied cask , “ The Great Tun of Amsterdam , that could seat thirty - two comfortably for a whole day's amiable sozzling . " 134 Curiously , most of ...
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... whole principle of maritime sovereignty and the fisheries was set aside indefinitely . These terms left many gloomy in Britain . " Nobody , " wrote Pepys , " is speaking of the with any content or pleasure but are silent in it as a ...
... whole principle of maritime sovereignty and the fisheries was set aside indefinitely . These terms left many gloomy in Britain . " Nobody , " wrote Pepys , " is speaking of the with any content or pleasure but are silent in it as a ...
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