Main entry:

Schama, Simon, author.

Title & Author:

The embarrassment of riches : an interpretation of Dutch culture in the Golden Age / Simon Schama.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.
New York : Distributed by Random House

Description:

xiii, 698 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 623-670) and index.
Introduction: The Batavian temperament -- Part one: Becoming. Moral geography -- Patriotic scripture -- Part two: Doing and not doing. Feasting, fasting and timely atonement -- The impertinence of survival -- The embarrassment of riches -- Part three: Living and growing. Housewives and hussies: homeliness and worldliness -- In the republic of children -- Part four: Watersheds. Inside, outside.

Summary:

This text 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.
Examines seventeenth-century Dutch life, history, and culture.

ISBN:

0394510755
9780394510750
000217801X (COLLINS)
9780002178013 (COLLINS)
0006861369 (FONTANA) (pbk.)
9780006861362 (FONTANA) (pbk.)

Subject:

NETHERLANDS Civilization 17th century.
Civilization.
Kultur
Cultuurgeschiedenis.
Netherlands Civilization 17th century.
Netherlands History 17th century.
Pays-Bas Civilisation 17e siècle.
Pays-Bas Histoire 17e siècle.
Netherlands.
Niederlande
4.210.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Interpretation of Dutch culture in the Golden Age

Holdings:

Location: Library main 3208
Call No.: ID:87-B11756
Status: Available