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

Schama, Simon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006861369 ISBN 13: 9780006861362

Verlag: Harper Perennial, 2004

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This is the book that made Simon Schama’s reputation when first published in 1987. A historical masterpiece, it is an epic account of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age of Rembrandt and van Diemen.

In this brilliant work that moves far beyond the conventions of social or cultural history, Simon Schama investigates the astonishing case of a people’s self-invention.

He shows how, in the 17th-century, a modest assortment of farming, fishing and shipping communities, without a shared language, religion or government, transformed themselves into a formidable world empire – the Dutch republic.

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Simon Schama was born in London in 1945 and educated at Cambridge University, where from 1966 to 1976 he was a Fellow of Christ’s College. He is now Old Dominion Professor of Humanities at Columbia University and one of the most celebrated historians now at work anywhere in the world.

Schama is married and has two children.

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This is the book that made Simon Schama’s reputation when first published in 1987. A historical masterpiece, it is an epic account of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age of Rembrandt and van Diemen. In this brilliant work that moves far beyond the conventions of social or cultural history, Simon Schama investigates the astonishing case of a people’s self-invention. He shows how, in the 17th-century, a modest assortment of farming, fishing and shipping communities, without a shared language, religion or government, transformed themselves into a formidable world empire – the Dutch republic.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Harper Perennial
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0006861369
• ISBN 13: 9780006861362
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 720
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