Amsterdam

A History of the World's Most Liberal City

Auteur Russell Shorto

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ISBN

9781408703472

Bindwijze

Hardcover

Taal

Engels

Auteur

Russell Shorto

Uitgeverij

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Jaar van uitgifte

2013

Aantal pagina's

368

Waar gaat het over?

Amsterdam is not just any city. Despite its relative size it has stood alongside its larger cousins - Paris, London, Berlin - and has influenced the modern world to a degree that few other cities have. Sweeping across the city's colourful thousand year history, Amsterdam brings the place to life: its sights and smells; its politics and people. Concentrating on two significant periods - the late 1500s to the mid 1600s and then from the Second World War to the present, Russell Shorto's masterful biography looks at Amsterdam's central preoccupations. Just as fin-de-siecle Vienna was the birthplace of psychoanalysis, seventeenth century Amsterdam was the wellspring of liberalism, and today it is still a city that takes individual freedom very seriously. A wonderfully evocative book that takes Amsterdam's dramatic past and present and populates it with a whole host of colourful characters, Amsterdam is the definitive book on this great city.

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