0349000026 
Paperback Amsterdam : a history of the world's most liberal city / Russell Shorto.
Publication year: 2014
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Abacus
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9780349000022 (pbk.) :
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Doubleday, 2013.
Netherlands
Cities
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.
Description:
405 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), map (colour) ; 20 cm
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