The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden age [Audiobook] download free by Simon Schama
- Listen audiobook: The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden age
- Author: Simon Schama
- Release date: 2011/11/27
- Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE USA INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Business, Finance and Law
- ISBN: 9780679781240
- Rating: 8.44 of 10
- Votes: 243
- Review by: Scarlett Slater
- Review rating: 7.58 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/18
- Duration: 9H11M50S in 256 kbps (144 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-29
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: Apple Lossless, MPEG4, WAV, FLAC, WMA, MP3, MP4 (compression CPIO, ZIP, RAR, LZMA)
- Total pages original book: 720
- Includes a PDF summary of 76 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 58M5S (15.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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
- Other categories, genre or collection: Social & Cultural History, European History, Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900, Economic History, Social & Cultural Anthropology
- Download servers: Uploaded, ZeoSpace, FileServe, 4Shared, Hotfile, Google Drive, Koofr. Compressed in CPIO, ZIP, RAR, LZMA
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 37.30 USD
- Dimensions: 167.89x228.6x37.34mm
- Weight: 1,133.98g
- Printed by: Random House Inc
- Published in: New York, United States
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