EAN: 9780349000022

AMSTERDAM - RUSSELL SHORTO TASCHENBUCH

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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