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An edition of Amsterdam (2013)

Amsterdam

a history of the world's most liberal city

by

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

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Publisher
Little, Brown
Language
English
Pages
357

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Subjects

world's first stock exchange, ethnic diversity, Dutch East India Company, marijuana, the Spanish/Portuguese inquisition, religious freedom, Dutch West India Company, the Jewish migration, tolerance, Liberalism, History, Netherlands, history, Amsterdam (netherlands), New York Times reviewed, Libéralisme, Histoire

People

Benedictus de Spinoza (1632-1677), Peter Stuyvesant, Theo van Gogh, Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Vermeer, John Locke

Places

New Amsterdam, Auschwitz, Anne Frank, Jewish Amsterdam

Times

the years 1200 to 2013

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Amsterdam
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City
2014, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
in English
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Cover of: Amsterdam
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City
2014, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
in English
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Cover of: Amsterdam
Amsterdam: a history of the world's most liberal city
2013, Little, Brown
in English
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Cover of: Amsterdam
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City
Mar 25, 2013, Doubleday
paperback
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Cover of: Amsterdam
Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City
2013, Doubleday
Hardcover in English
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Table of Contents

A bicycle trip
The water problem
The alteration
The company
The liberal city
"The rare happiness of living in a republic"
Seeds of influence
The two liberalisms
"We inform you of the action of a powerful German force"
The magic center.

Edition Notes

Originally published: New York : Doubleday, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tertiary/Undergraduate, General.

Published in
London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
949.2352
Library of Congress
DJ411.A55 S56 2014, DJ411.A55

The Physical Object

Pagination
357 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates
Number of pages
357

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27859711M
Internet Archive
amsterdamhistory0000shor
ISBN 10
1408703483, 1408703475
ISBN 13
9781408703489, 9781408703472, 9780748128631
OCLC/WorldCat
857193875

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Work Description

As the subtitle says, this is a history of the world's most liberal city. To put it more to the point, it is about the world's most liberal capitalist city, a city that has been so from its early beginnings. The author takes us through the length of its history in a light breezy style that he uses to turn a heavy subject into easy, enjoyable, rewarding reading.

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