The Embarrassment of Riches by Simon Schama

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/27425 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Embarrassment of Riches Author: Simon Schama Narrator: Mike Cooper Format: mp3 Length: 20 hrs and 46 mins Release date: 11-12-24 Ratings: 4 out of 5 stars, 7 ratings Genres: Europe Publisher's Summary: 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.