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    <body><![CDATA[Best for academics and anyone who's got a lot of extra time to learn why the Dutch are who they are (expats like myself, perhaps?), but surprisingly great reading for an essentially academic text.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Awesome. I keep rereading it. The 17th century dutch are the new 21st century Americans. Discuss.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A history that shows you how the Dutch became Dutch.  Has pictures, since it was written by an art historian, and a wealth of very interesting themes such as Calvinism vs wealth, the use of art as moralizing tales and business vs pleasure.  The Netherlanders I've spoken to said it caused a great ruc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61246113">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just as he did Henry VIII with a deck of cards, a set of scales, and a cake, so Schama did the Dutch Golden Age with a whale penis, a dirty diaper, and a map of Amsterdam that looks like a vagina.<br/><br/>Score?]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Especially meaningful to non-Dutch folk living in the Netherlands, this book provides a good look at way the Dutch are so Dutch.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great history of 17th century Dutch life.  Very entertaining.  Schama talks about the daily life of the Dutch.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[More about 17th and 18th century Dutch consumer culture than one should need to know. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[tough slog in a way, but fascinating insights into culture as shown through painting]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Had to read this in college. Thought his arguments were HOOOEY.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Given that I have been slogging through all kinds scrupulously detailed political and economic histories of the netherlands in the 17th Century, Schama's book is like a breath of fresh air in a drowning tank. Which apparently is a 17th C urban legend. Schama is an odd duck, his revolution hating Cit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9365480">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read for FS 100, Freshman Seminar, in fall 1990.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this for my Modern Europe class.  Book was good at some points, tends to get dry each chapter goes along.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A beautiful and terribly enlightening way to approach this time period in Dutch history.]]></body>
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