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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Shorto, Russell, author.     Subjects     Liberalism -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- History.     Amsterdam (Netherlands) -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Shorto, Russell, author.       by title:      Amsterdam : a histor...         MARC Display

Amsterdam : a history of the world's most liberal city / Russell Shorto. by Shorto, Russell, author. New York : Doubleday, c2013. Subjects Liberalism -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- History.   Amsterdam (Netherlands) -- History. ISBN:  9780385534574 (hbk.) : 0385534574 (hbk.) Description:  357 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. 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. Requests:  0 Summary:  Tourists know Amsterdam as a picturesque city of low-slung brick houses lining tidy canals; student travelers know it for its legal brothels and hash bars; art lovers know it for Rembrandt's glorious portraits. But the deeper history of Amsterdam, what makes it one of the most fascinating places on earth, is bound up in its unique geography--the constant battle of its citizens to keep the sea at bay--and the democratic philosophy that this enduring struggle fostered. Amsterdam is the font of liberalism, in both its senses. Tolerance for free thinking and free love make it a place where, in the words of one of its mayors, "craziness is a value." But the city also fostered the deeper meaning of liberalism, one that profoundly influenced America: political and economic freedom. Amsterdam was home not only to religious dissidents and radical thinkers but to the world's first great global corporation. In this effortlessly erudite account, Russell Shorto traces the idiosyncratic evolution of Amsterdam, showing how such disparate elements as herring anatomy, naked Anabaptists parading through the streets, and an intimate gathering in a sixteenth century wine tasting room had a profound effect on Dutch--and world--history. Weaving in his own experiences of his adopted home, Shorto provides an ever surprising, intellectually engaging story of Amsterdam from the building of its first canals in the 1300s, through its brutal struggle for independence and its golden age as a vast empire, to its complex present in which its cherished ideals of liberalism are being questioned anew.--Publisher description.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Aina Haina Public Library Adult Nonfiction 949.2352 Sh Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 949.2352 Sh Checked In Add Copy to MyList Wahiawa Public Library Adult Nonfiction 949.2352 Sho Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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