1650: hard-won unity
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1650: hard-won unity
(Dutch culture in a European perspective, v. 1)
Royal Van Gorcum , Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
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1650: Bevochten eendracht
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  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
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  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
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Note
"Originally published in Dutch as: 1650: Bevochten eendracht by Sdu Publishers, The Hague , c1999"--T.p. verso
"Published in continental Europe by Royal Van Gorcum"--T.p. verso
"Published in the United Kingdom and throughout the World excluding continental Europe by Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, ... "--T.p. verso
Bibliography: p. 657-723
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This ambitious study presents the latest views on Dutch society during the famous Golden Age. No other general work treats the most important themes of Dutch culture, including art, literature and music, so systematically. The national and international political situation is used as a backdrop for an analysis of such major centres of power as the stadtholder's court and the municipal councils. The book lays stress on the intellectual, professional and religious networks of which citizens could be members, and on the important role of family connections. Philosophy, religion and the arts are treated at length, and particular attention is paid to the 'instruments of culture', that is, to the institutions and media responsible for the dissemination of culture, including language, education and the printed word. Although 1650 is the central year, the subject is examined in a much broader time-frame, which makes the book an excellent introduction to seventeenth-century society in general.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Setting
- The Dutch State and Its Political Culture
- An Urban Society
- Instruments of Culture
- Philosophy
- Religion and Faith
- The Sister Arts
- Architecture and the Visual Arts
- Literature and Music
- Conclusion
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