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Amsterdam A History of the World's Most Liberal City

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Publisher's Synopsis

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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Book information

ISBN: 9780349000022
Publisher: Little, Brown
Imprint: Abacus
Pub date:
DEWEY: 949.2352
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 416
Weight: 348g
Height: 197mm
Width: 131mm
Spine width: 27mm