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The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age

The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age

Schama, Simon

Paperback

AnthropologyGeneral European HistoryGeneral World History

Publisher Price: $29.00

ISBN10: 0679781242
ISBN13: 9780679781240
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Dec 8 1997
Pages: 720
Weight: 1.95
Height: 1.70 Width: 6.60 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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.


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