Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City - Brossura

Shorto, Russell

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1408703483 ISBN 13: 9781408703489

Casa editrice: Little, Brown, 2013

Riassunto

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 will look 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.

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

This is the first 'biography' of the city of Amsterdam - in the same vein as Peter Ackroyd's London.

L'autore:

Russell Shorto is an American author, historian and journalist. His books have been published in nine languages and he is the contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine and the director of the John Adams Institute in Amsterdam.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Little, Brown
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1408703483
• ISBN 13: 9781408703489
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 368