Amsterdam - A History of the World's Most Liberal City
Verlag | Little, Brown Book Group |
Auflage | 2014 |
Seiten | 416 |
Format | 12,8 x 19,5 x 2,5 cm |
Gewicht | 370 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
ISBN-10 | 0349000026 |
EAN | 9780349000022 |
Bestell-Nr | 34900002EA |
This is the first 'biography' of the city of Amsterdam - in the same vein as Peter Ackroyd's London.
Klappentext:
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.