9780679781240-0679781242-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

ISBN-13: 9780679781240
ISBN-10: 0679781242
Edition: First edition thus.
Author: Simon Schama
Publication date: 1997
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback 720 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780679781240
ISBN-10: 0679781242
Edition: First edition thus.
Author: Simon Schama
Publication date: 1997
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback 720 pages

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The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age (ISBN-13: 9780679781240 and ISBN-10: 0679781242), written by authors Simon Schama, was published by Vintage in 1997. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other Economic History (Economics) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Economic History books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.14.

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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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