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| ID | 1307 |
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| Title | Amsterdam |
| Subtitle | A History of the World's Most Liberal City |
| Author | Russel Shorto |
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| Publisher | Little, Brown |
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| Copyright Year | 0 |
| Publication Year | 0 |
| ISBN# | 978-0-349-00002-2 |
| Pages | 405 |
| Language | en |
| Genre | History |
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| Series Number | 0 |
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| Summary | 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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| Date Created | 2023-09-18 |
| Date Modified | 2025-10-26 |
| Publication Date | 2014 |
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| Print Type | BOOK |
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| ISBN-10 | 0349000026 |
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| Cover Last Updated | 2025-10-31 |
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