Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City by Russell Shorto (Paperback, 2014)

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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 will bring 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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PublisherLittle, Brown Book Group
ISBN-139780349000022
eBay Product ID (ePID)209580838

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Number of Pages416 Pages
Publication NameAmsterdam: a History of the World's Most Liberal City
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHistory
Publication Year2014
TypeTextbook
AuthorRussell Shorto
FormatPaperback

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Item Height197 mm
Item Weight370 g
Item Width129 mm

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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorRussell Shorto

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  • Great book

    About to head to Amsterdam for the weekend and wanted to read up on the place before I did so. This book is well worth a read before you go. Has made me look at Amsterdam in a whole new light.

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  • Super

    It’s excellent but basic. It opens up whole new chapters of the city.

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