{"product_id":"amsterdam-0349000026","title":"Amsterdam","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0349000026\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Abacus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":51541834301728,"sku":"NEW0349000026","price":24.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Used - Good","offer_id":51541834334496,"sku":"USED0349000026","price":10.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/915CUQhmiRL.jpg?v=1777546313","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/amsterdam-0349000026","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}