{"product_id":"amsterdam-by-russell-shorto-9780349000022","title":"Amsterdam","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmsterdam\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eAmsterdam\u003c\/i\u003e will bring the place to life: its sights and smells; its politics and people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFocusing 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 examines Amsterdam's central preoccupations. Just as fin-de-siècle Vienna was the birthplace of psychoanalysis, seventeenth-century Amsterdam was the wellspring of liberalism, and today it remains a city that takes individual freedom very seriously.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46848368574700,"sku":"9780349000022","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/6453743482312.jpg?v=1758974665","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/amsterdam-by-russell-shorto-9780349000022","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}