Well-Being in Amsterdam's Golden Age

By Derek Phillips

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9085550424
• ISBN13: 9789085550426
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.7" x 6.3"