Dutch culture in the Golden Age

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The seventeenth century is considered the Dutch Golden Age, a time when the Dutch were at the forefront of social change, economics, the sciences, and art. The author places these many achievements within their social context. His central argument is that alongside the innovative tendencies in Dutch society and culture there were powerful conservative and reactionary forces at work--and that it was the tension between these contradictory impulses that gave the period its unique and powerful dyn…

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Title Statements

Full title :Dutch culture in the Golden Age / J.L. Price.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Reaktion books
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

The Physical Object

Description:286 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781861898005, 1861898002
oclc:ocn670480415
LC Classification:DJ71
Dewey Decimal:949.204

Context -- Structures and change -- The shape of Dutch culture -- Painting and graphic art -- Literature -- Humanism and the republic of letters -- Science and technology -- God and truth -- The culture of politics -- The influence of the Dutch Golden Age -- The waning of the Golden Age.

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Civilization Cultuurgeschiedenis Gouden eeuw (begrip) Intellectual life Nederland Nederländerna -- intellektuellt liv -- … Nederländerna -- sociala förhållanden -… Netherlands Netherlands -- Civilization -- 17th cen… Netherlands -- Intellectual life -- 17t… Netherlands -- Social conditions -- 17t… Pays-Bas -- Civilisation -- 17e siècle Pays-Bas -- Conditions sociales -- 17e … Pays-Bas -- Vie intellectuelle -- 17e s… Social conditions