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Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City
Russell Shorto
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Description for Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City
Paperback. This is the first 'biography' of the city of Amsterdam - in the same vein as Peter Ackroyd's London. Num Pages: 416 pages, Section: 16, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DDN; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 362.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Abacus
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349000022
SKU
9780349000022
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About Russell Shorto
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.
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