Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City
Author(s): Russell Shorto
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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The story of a great city that has shaped the soul of the world. Masterful reporting, vivid history - the past and present are equally alive in this book -- James Gleick, author of The Information: a History, a Theory, a Flood An often brilliant - and always enjoyable - investigation of liberalism's Dutch roots. Shorto is once again revealed as a passionate and persuasive historian of culture and ideas -- Joseph O'Neill, author of Netherland
Russell Shorto is an American author, historian and journalist. His books have been published in nine languages and he is the contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine and the director of the John Adams Institute in Amsterdam.
General Fields
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- : Little, Brown Book Group
- : Little, Brown
- : 01 September 2013
- : 234mm X 153mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 November 2013
- : books
Special Fields
- : Russell Shorto
- : Hardback
- : 1
- : 949.2352
- : 368
- : Colour