Amsterdam

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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, this book brings 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.

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‘Standard kit for anyone visiting the city’ Guardian

‘Rich and eventful … a book that easily fuses large cultural trends with intimately personal stories’ New York Times

‘The story of a great city that has shaped the soul of the world. Masterful reporting, vivid history’ James Gleick

In this ever-surprising and effortlessly erudite portrait, Russell Shorto traces the idiosyncratic evolution of Amsterdam and examines its role as the fount of liberalism. Weaving in his own experiences of his adopted home, he delivers a delightful and intellectually engaging story of the city from the building of the first canals in the 1300s through the brutal struggle for Dutch independence and its golden age as the capital of a vast empire, to its complex present in which its cherished ideals are being questioned anew.

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Weight 347 g
Dimensions 19.7 × 12.9 × 3.6 cm
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Cover

Paperback
Pages

416
Language

English
Edition
Dewey

949.2352 (edition:23)
Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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