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Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City de Russell Shorto

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

Autor Russell Shorto
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 mai 2014
This is the first 'biography' of the city of Amsterdam - in the same vein as Peter Ackroyd's London.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780349000022
ISBN-10: 0349000026
Pagini: 405
Ilustrații: Section: 16, b/w photos
Dimensiuni: 126 x 198 x 34 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Abacus
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Descriere

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.

Recenzii

The story of a great city that has shaped the soul of the world. Masterful reporting, vivid history - the past and present are equally alive in this book
An often brilliant - and always enjoyable - investigation of liberalism's Dutch roots. Shorto is once again revealed as a passionate and persuasive historian of culture and ideas
Shorto is an excellent storyteller and rootler of strange facts, and Amsterdam should be issued as standard kit for anyone visiting the city
Shorto sprinkles the book with personal anecdotes that illustrate how history suffuses the present
A tender, truthful love letter to his adopted city . . . Shorto's lively book is true to its salty, contradictory character
Rich and eventful ... a book that easily fuses large cultural trends with intimately personal stories
Shorto's fine portraits of individuals are in the Amsterdam tradition, and he has an Amsterdammer's feel for this backwater town that remains the world's laboratory of liberalism
'Rich and eventful ... a book that easily fuses large cultural trends with intimately personal stories' New York Times

'The story of a great city that has shaped the soul of the world. Masterful reporting, vivid history - the past and present are equally alive in this book' James Gleick, author of The Information: a History, a Theory, a Flood

'Shorto's fine portraits of individuals are in the Amsterdam tradition, and he has an Amsterdammer's feel for this backwater town that remains the world's laboratory of liberalism' Financial Times

In this ever-surprising and effortlessly erudite portrait, Russell Shorto traces the idiosyncratic evolution of Amsterdam and examines its role as the font of liberalism. Weaving in his own experiences of his adopted home, he delivers a delightful and intellectually engaging story of the city from the building of the first canals in the 1300s through the brutal struggle for Dutch independence and its golden age as the capital of a vast empire, to its complex present in which its cherished ideals are being questioned anew.

'An often brilliant - and always enjoyable - investigation of liberalism's Dutch roots. Shorto is once again revealed as a passionate and persuasive historian of culture and ideas' Joseph O'Neill, author of Netherland

Notă biografică

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.