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Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City (Paperback)
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Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City (Paperback)

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Paperback 416 Pages
Published: 08/05/2014
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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.

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9780349000022
Number of pages: 416
Weight: 370 g
Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 27 mm

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“Wow! Never imagined reading history could be this absorbing”

The fruits of liberalism can best be leveraged in a truly literate(the better definition) society!!!
Loved the portrayal of the role of art bringing about the necessary change in the society. Fascinating to see how... More

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