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The Embarrassment Of Riches: An Interpretation Of Dutch Culture In The Golden Age
by Schama, Simon
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- Hardcover
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- Used: Acceptable
- ISBN 10
- 000217801X
- ISBN 13
- 9780002178013
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About This Item
A4 tall blue white txt: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1987. Hardcover. Used: Acceptable. Condition good with dust jacket. ref ZKVQ This is the book that made Simon SchamaÂs 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 peopleÂs 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.
Synopsis
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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- Lady Lisa's Bookshop
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- Title
- The Embarrassment Of Riches: An Interpretation Of Dutch Culture In The Golden Age
- Author
- Schama, Simon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used: Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 000217801X
- ISBN 13
- 9780002178013
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- Place of Publication
- A4 tall blue white txt
- Date Published
- 1987
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