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Russell Shorto
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Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City
Автор: Russell Shorto Жанр: Little, Brown and Company Издательство: Little, Brown and Company Год: 2013 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20142017-03-28
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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 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.
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