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Embarrassment of Riches

by: Simon Schama (author)

Format: paperback

ISBN: 9780520061477 (0520061470)

Publish date: January 1st 1988

Publisher: University of California Press

Pages no: 698

Edition language: English

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Non Fiction, History, Literature, Cultural, Economics, Art, Culture, Cultural Studies, European History, Art History, Holland, 17th Century

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Schama covers in amazing detail the culture and history of the Netherlands during the peak of its Golden Age in the seventeenth century. He provides great insight on some of the origins of the traits we associate with the Dutch - strong business sense, open mindedness, high value for cleanliness an...

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Well Researched and Informative though some Sections are a Grind I knew Schama from his A History of Britain series via BBC/History and I have been interested about the Golden Age of the Dutch Republic, so that's what brought me to this book. My usual history reading were usually biographies or ge...

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