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The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Embarrassment of RichesIn 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.
Full description- Publisher: Vintage Books USA
- Published: 08 December 1997
- Format: Paperback 720 pages
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- Categories: Social & Cultural Anthropology | European History | Social & Cultural History
- ISBN 13: 9780679781240 ISBN 10: 0679781242
- Sales rank: 41,691
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Full description for The Embarrassment of Riches
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
