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Record Nr.

UNISA996206840603316

Autore

Waard Marco de

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2012

ISBN

90-485-1513-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (316 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cities and Cultures

Disciplina

914.923

Soggetti

SOCIAL SCIENCE / General

Amsterdam (Netherlands) History

Amsterdam (Netherlands) Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jan 2021).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Amsterdam and the Global Imaginary / de Waard, Marco -- Part I: Historicizing Global Amsterdam -- 2. Imagining Social Change in Early-Modern Amsterdam: Global Processes, Local Perceptions / Ufer, Ulrich -- 3. Amidst Unscrupulous Neighbours: Amsterdam Money and Foreign Interests in Dutch Patriotic Imagery / Sturkenboom, Dorothee -- 4. Visualizing Commerce and Empire: Decorating the Built Environment of Amsterdam / Wintle, Michael -- 5. Romance and Commerce: Imagining Global Amsterdam in the Contemporary Historical Novel / Goggin, Joyce / Salor, Erinç -- 6. Dutch Decline Redux: Remembering New Amsterdam in the Global and Cosmopolitan Novel / de Waard, Marco -- Part II: Amsterdam Global Village: (Inter)National Imaginings -- 7. Form, Punch, Caress: Johan van der Keuken's Global Amsterdam / Pisters, Patricia -- 8. Rembrandt on Screen: Art Cinema, Cultural Heritage, and the Museumization of Urban Space / de Waard, Marco -- 9. Imagining a Global Village: Amsterdam in Janwillem van de Wetering's Detective Fiction / Vanacker, Sabine -- 10. Amsterdam, City of Sirens: On Hafid Bouazza's Short Story 'Apolline' / Louwerse, Henriette -- Part III: Global Amsterdam's Cultural Geography -- 11. Amsterdam and/as New Babylon: Urban Modernity's Contested Trajectories / Denaci, Mark E. -- 12. Amsterdam's Architectural Image from Early- Modern Print Series to Global Heritage Discourse / Schmidt,



Freek -- 13. Amsterdam Memorials, Multiculturalism, and the Debate on Dutch Identity / Dewulf, Jeroen -- 14. Graphic Design, Globalization, and Placemaking in the Neighbourhoods of Amsterdam / Mac, Bharain -- 15. A Global Red-Light City? Prostitution in Amsterdam as a Real-and-Imagined Place / Deinema, Michaël / Aalbers, Manuel B. -- 16. Global Eros in Amsterdam: Religion, Sex, Politics / Valenta, Markha -- Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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; expressions of global consciousness in Amsterdam in the 'Golden Age'; articulations of Amsterdam as a tolerant, multicultural, and permissive 'global village'; and globalization's impact 'on the ground' through city branding, the cultural heritage industry, and cultural production in the city. Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, and united by a broad humanities approach, this collection forms a multifaceted inquiry into the dynamic relationship between Amsterdam, globalization, and the urban imaginary.