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AMSTERDAM
A HISTORY OF THE WORLD'S MOST LIBERAL CITY |
| By: |
Russell Shorto |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£14.99 |
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£10.94 |
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£4.05 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0349000026 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780349000022 |
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Currently 136 available |
| Publisher: |
LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP |
| Pub. date: |
8 May, 2014 |
| Pages: |
416 |
| Description: |
This is the first 'biography' of the city of Amsterdam - in the same vein as Peter Ackroyd's London. |
| 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. |
| Illustrations: |
Section: 16, b/w photos |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Abacus |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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