The Embarrassment of Riches by Simon Schama

The Embarrassment of Riches by Simon Schama

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

Simon Schama is a Columbia University professor of history and art history and the author of numerous works, including Rough Crossings, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, and The Embarrassment of Wealth. He writes on politics and culture for the Financial Times and has written and presented over fifty documentaries for the BBC, PBS, and the History Channel, including The Power of Art, which won the 2007 International Emmy for Outstanding Arts Programming.

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ISBN 13	9780394510750
ISBN 10	0394510755
Title	The Embarrassment of Riches
Author	Simon Schama
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1987-06-12
Number of pages	698
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