[PDF.25wp] The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age

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

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 | #252523 in Books |  Vintage |  1997-12-08 |  1997-12-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.30 x1.40 x6.60l,2.50 | File type: PDF | 720 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| If you want to understand the Dutch today; go back to the 17th century with this..|By Diamonds|Halfway through now, and it is hard to put down (except for those passages where the author does seem to take along time to get over dwelling on some particular (art) pieces to put in context). Having said that, the very same thing that makes it so intriguing and interesting, that is

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...

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