Questo .È il libro che ha fatto la reputazione di Simon Schama quando .È stato pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1987. Un capolavoro storico, .È un resoconto epico della cultura olandese nell'età dell'oro di Rembrandt e van Diemen. In questa brillante opera che va ben oltre le convenzioni della storia sociale o culturale, Simon Schama indaga il sorprendente caso dell'autoinvenzione di un popolo. Mostra come, nel XVII secolo, un modesto assortimento di comunità di agricoltori, pescatori e spedizionieri, senza una lingua, una religione o un governo condivisi, si siano trasformati in un formidabile impero mondiale: la repubblica olandese.
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Simon Schama was born in London in 1945 and educated at Cambridge University, where from 1966 to 1976 he was a Fellow of Christ’s College. He is now Old Dominion Professor of Humanities at Columbia University and one of the most celebrated historians now at work anywhere in the world.
Schama is married and has two children.
This is the book that made Simon Schama’s reputation when first published in 1987. A historical masterpiece, it is an epic account of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age of Rembrandt and van Diemen. In this brilliant work that moves far beyond the conventions of social or cultural history, Simon Schama investigates the astonishing case of a people’s self-invention. He shows how, in the 17th-century, a modest assortment of farming, fishing and shipping communities, without a shared language, religion or government, transformed themselves into a formidable world empire – the Dutch republic.
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