Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason (Häftad)
avRussell Shorto
ISBN: 9780307275660 - UTGIVEN: 200908
The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld (Häftad)
avHerbert Asbury, Russell Shorto
ISBN: 9780307388988 - UTGIVEN: 200807First published in 1928, Herbert Asbury's whirlwind tour through the low-life of""nineteenth-century New York has become an indispensible classic of urban history.
Focusing on the saloon halls, gambling dens, and winding alleys of the Bowery and the notorious Five Points district, "The Gangs of [...]
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City (Häftad)
avRussell Shorto
ISBN: 9780307743756 - UTGIVEN: 2014-08In this effortlessly erudite account, Russell Shorto traces the evolution of one of the world's greatest cities. From the building of its first canals in the 1300s, through the brutal struggle for Dutch independence and its golden age as the capital of a vast empire, to its complex present in which [...]
Amsterdam (Storpocket)
avRussell Shorto
ISBN: 9780349000022 - UTGIVEN: 2014-05Amsterdam 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[...]
Descartes' Bones (Storpocket)
avRussell Shorto
ISBN: 9780349140186 - UTGIVEN: 2014-05Sixteen years after Rene Descartes' death in Stockholm in 1650, a pious French ambassador exhumed the remains of the controversial philosopher to transport them back to Paris. Thus began a 350-year saga that saw Descartes' bones traverse a continent, passing between kings, philosophers, poets, and p[...]
The Island at the Centre of the World (Storpocket)
avRussell Shorto
ISBN: 9780349140209 - UTGIVEN: 2014-05When the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the truth about its thriving, polyglot society began to disappear into myths about an island purchased for 24 dollars and a cartoonish peg-legged governor. But the story of the Dutch colony of New Netherland was merely lost, not destroye[...]
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City (Inbunden)
avRussell Shorto
ISBN: 9780385534574 - UTGIVEN: 2013-10An endlessly entertaining portrait of the city of Amsterdam and the ideas that make it unique, by the author of the acclaimed "Island at the Center of the World"
Tourists know Amsterdam as a picturesque city of low-slung brick houses lining tidy canals; student travelers know it for its legal b[...]
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America (Häftad)
avRussell Shorto
ISBN: 9781400078677 - UTGIVEN: 2005-04In a landmark work of history, Shorto presents astonishing information on thefounding of our nation and reveals in riveting detail the crucial role of theDutch in making America what it is today.[...]
