Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City
Russell Shorto, Doubleday ( Disponible Bibliothèque de Côte-des-Neiges) … Critiques The Guardian Amsterdam: a great city built on ‘luck, ruthlessness and ingenuity’. Photograph: Fraser Hall/Getty Images here he looks at the deeper roots of Amsterdam’s liberal exceptionalism and its significance for the wider world, from the city’s origins as a squashy medieval mudflat to its…