{"product_id":"9780349000022","title":"Amsterdam","description":"Author: Russell Shorto\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780349000022\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Little Brown\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 13 May 2014\u003cbr\u003ePages: 416 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmsterdam 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eConcentrating 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA wonderfully evocative book that takes Amsterdam's dramatic past and present and populates it with a whole host of colourful characters, \u003ci\u003eAmsterdam\u003c\/i\u003e is the definitive book on this great city.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46491589902494,"sku":"ADS-9780349000022","price":26.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780349000022.jpg?v=1770594488","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780349000022","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}