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Simon Schama The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
Fontana Press Harpercollins 0006861369 / 9780006861362 PAPERBACK Very Good
0006861369 Review n'The Embarrassment of Riches is well-named. Schama's method is wonderfully inclusive; with wit and intense curiosity he teases out meaning form every aspect of Dutch seventeenth-century life, from ideas about sea monsters to obsessions about hygiene. One reads it all with mounting enjoyment and at the end one's sense of Dutch civilisation in the Golden Age of Rembrandt and van Diemen is not just salted and enriched -- but remade.' Robert Hughes'Simon Schama writes with grace and wit, and his enthusiasms are contagious. Above all, this is a labour of love -- love of an ethical system, of a physical landscape, and of an emotional husbandry that perfectly balanced the material with the moral. The lightheartedness and energy that charactize the author and his marvellous book are the finest tribute he could have paid to the subject of his choice.' Anita Brookner, Observer'This is history on the grand scale, and like all generously conceived historical works leaves us reflecting about the present as well as the past.' John Gross, New York Times'Schama is a scholar with the rare gift of talking to non-scholars without talking down... What is really breathtaking about the book is his command of overall structure, that enables him to construct such a complex and sophisticated argument without ever losing narrative drive, to generalize only from innumberable particularities, which somehow always remain in proportion, and are never allowed to clog the massive flow.' John Russell Taylor, The Times'Seldom has a people opened its doors so wide. A performance on the epic scale.' Independent n nScholarly, exhaustively researched, packed with highly esoteric information, this massive study is less daunting than it might seem at first glance, thanks to Schama's lively writing style and his eye for the colorful and thought-provoking detail. Specialized, but likely to instruct and, more importantly, entertain the general reader. Focusing his attention on the Netherlands during the 17th century, Schama investigates the linkage that the citizens who wrested their lands from the sea felt with the waters lapping their shores. The sea, quite understandably, was viewed as an enemy and, in a particularly evocative section, the author discourses at length on the identification the Dutch felt with the Children of Israel, especially the Jews of Exodus and their flight through the Red Sea. It is intriguing to speculate on how Netherlander attitudes influenced our Puritan forebears during their stay in the Low Countries. Puritan talk of founding the New Jerusalem and the Calvinist emphasis on Old Testament teachings owe much lo the Pilgrims' sojourn in the Netherlands. Equally provocative are the insights given into Golden Age attitudes toward sexuality - chastity was demanded and. again, had something to do with Old Testament attitudes, this time toward cleanliness. Not that women were secluded, as they were in Latin countries; they were, in fact, quite liberated in their social intercourse, but a Dutch woman's reputation had to be as spotless as her doorstep. The dichotomy between apparently uninhibited public behavior and the strictest private morality confused and shocked both Catholic visitors and Puritan moralists. Among other topics that come under Schama's scrutiny are art, superstition. finance and child-rearing during the period when the Dutch Republic was one of Europe's superpowers. In each area he explores, Schama discovers details that prompt far-ranging speculations about religion, philosophy and the human condition. A stimulating and important dissection of a little-known but constantly fascinating era. A lavish compilation of 325 photographs (not seen) illustrates the text. (Kirkus Reviews) n nThis extraordinary book, first published in 1987, has already become accepted as a classic of historical writing. It examines the progress of a loosely connected group of farming, fishing and shipping communities, living in a flat and watery landscape, without a common language or religion or even a shared government, into that dynamic pow
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