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

Name: Embarrassment of Riches An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
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ISBN: 9780679781240

ISBN-10: 0679781242

ISBN-13: 9780679781240

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Authors: Simon Schama

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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…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/8/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 720
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.398
Language: English

Simon Schama is the author of The Embarrassment of Riches, Citizens, Landscape and Memory, and most recently, Rembrandt's Eyes. He is currently Old Dominion Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University. The second installment of his epic history of Britain is due to be published in April 2001.