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

Schama, Simon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679781242 ISBN 13: 9780679781240

Verlag: Vintage, 1997

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Book by Schama Simon

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Reseña del editor:

The author of Citizens presents an exhaustive, lively history of life in seventeenth-century Holland, the height of Dutch influence, culture, and affluence, accompanied by more than one hundred black-and-white reproductions and illustrations. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

Nota de la solapa:

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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• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679781242
• ISBN 13: 9780679781240
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 720