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The Embarrassment of Riches

An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age

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The Embarrassment of Riches

By: Simon Schama
Narrated by: Mike Cooper
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Simon 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 recreates 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.

©1987 Simon Schama (P)2024 Tantor Media Europe Sociology
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No problem with text, but please keep the wonderful voice of Mike Cooper OUT of languages other than English. I speak both Australian English and Dutch, but could not understand his prounciation of the many Dutch names and places in constant use. I had to return it.

Schama is great... Dutch pronunciation is awful.

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