Russell Shorto "Amsterdam"

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Cited as one of the most liberal places on earth, Amsterdam has been instrumental in cultivating the ideas and conditions from which the ideal of liberalism grew. Shorto, a longtime resident of the city and author of a study of the Dutch founding of Manhattan, chronicles Amsterdam's history as a place literally built on cooperation and tolerance, and one that hosted religious dissidents as well as serving as the headquarters for early multinationals, such as the East India Company.

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