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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, 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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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Amsterdam
• Author: Russell Shorto
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• EAN: 9780349000022
• ISBN: 0349000026
• ID: 02128428
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Weight: 364 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 131 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. May 2014

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