Imagining global Amsterdam : history, culture, and geography in a world city / edited by Marco de Waard.

Imagining Global Amsterdam brings together new essays on the image of Amsterdam as articulated in film, literature, art, and urban discourse, considered within the context of globalization and its impact on urban culture. Subjects include: Amsterdam's place in global cultural memory; expression...

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Other Authors: Waard, Marco de (Editor)
Format: Ebook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2012]
Series:Cities and cultures.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Amsterdam and the Global Imaginary / Marco de Waard
  • pt. I Historicizing Global Amsterdam
  • 2. Imagining Social Change in Early-Modern Amsterdam: Global Processes, Local Perceptions / Ulrich Ufer
  • 3. Amidst Unscrupulous Neighbours: Amsterdam Money and Foreign Interests in Dutch Patriotic Imagery / Dorothee Sturkenboom
  • 4. Visualizing Commerce and Empire: Decorating the Built Environment of Amsterdam / Michael Wintle
  • 5. Romance and Commerce: Imagining Global Amsterdam in the Contemporary Historical Novel / Erinc Salor
  • 6. Dutch Decline Redux: Remembering New Amsterdam in the Global and Cosmopolitan Novel / Marco de Waard
  • pt. II Amsterdam Global Village: (Inter)National Imaginings
  • 7. Form, Punch, Caress: Johan van der Keuken's Global Amsterdam / Patricia Pisters
  • 8. Rembrandt on Screen: Art Cinema, Cultural Heritage, and the Museumization of Urban Space / Marco de Waard.
  • Note continued: 9. Imagining a Global Village: Amsterdam in Janwillem van de Wetering's Detective Fiction / Sabine Vanacker
  • 10. Amsterdam, City of Sirens: On Hafid Bouazza's Short Story `Apolline' / Henriette Louwerse
  • pt. III Global Amsterdam's Cultural Geography
  • 11. Amsterdam and/as New Babylon: Urban Modernity's Contested Trajectories / Mark E. Denaci
  • 12. Amsterdam's Architectural Image from Early-Modern Print Series to Global Heritage Discourse / Freek Schmidt
  • 13. Amsterdam Memorials, Multiculturalism, and the Debate on Dutch Identity / Jeroen Dewulf
  • 14. Graphic Design, Globalization, and Placemaking in the Neighbourhoods of Amsterdam / Bharain Mac an Bhreithiun
  • 15.A Global Red-Light City? Prostitution in Amsterdam as a Real-and-Imagined Place / Manuel B. Aalbers
  • 16. Global Eros in Amsterdam: Religion, Sex, Politics / Markha Valenta.
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