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The Embarrassment of Riches
by Simon Schama
- HISTORY
- 1997
- PAPER
- 698 PAGES
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An engaging cultural history and much more, this book is a study of the Dutch in the 17th century and their surprising challenge to Spanish rule. The author concentrates on day-to-day aspects of Dutch life as a way of explaining the Dutch temperament today. Widely read in the Netherlands, the book seeks to set out the cultural peculiarities of the Dutch in the springtime of their nationality.
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