Well-being in Amsterdam's Golden Age
Author | : Derek L. Phillips |
Publisher | : Amsterdam University Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2008 |
ISBN-10 | : 9789085550426 |
ISBN-13 | : 9085550424 |
Rating | : 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: This captivating volume paints a broad portrait of daily life in seventeenth-century Amsterdam. Taking the reader into the heart of the Dutch Golden Age, Derek Phillips uses a wide variety of sources in order to provide a wealth of domestic detail: from how people washed their clothes and cooked their meals to how they lived, married, and raised their children. Well-Being in Amsterdam's Golden Age covers the terrain of merchants' offices, regents' drawing rooms, and servants' quarters through a range of multidisciplinary perspectives, revealing the processes linking equality and well-being in seventeenth-century Amsterdam and beyond.