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The Embarrassment of Riches

The Embarrassment of Riches

by Simon Schama

  • HISTORY
  • 1997
  • PAPER
  • 698 PAGES

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.  (NTH04, $25.00)


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