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The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age Paperback - 1997
by Simon Schama
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In a brilliantly inventive work, bestselling author Simon Schama 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. Drawing on a vast array of period documents and sumptuously reproduced art, THE EMBARRASSMENT OF RICHES throbs with life on every page. 314 photos & illustrations.
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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.
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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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- Title The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
- Author Simon Schama
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 720
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Publication date 1997-12-08
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780679781240 / 0679781242
- Weight 1.95 lbs (0.88 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.6 x 1.7 in (23.11 x 16.76 x 4.32 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 17th Century
- Cultural Region: Benelux
- Cultural Region: Western Europe
- Category History - General History
- Library of Congress subjects Netherlands - Civilization - 17th century
- Dewey Decimal Code 949.2
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