Lonely Planet: Golden Age canals lined by tilting gabled buildings are the backdrop for Amsterdam's treasure-packed museums, vintage shops and creative design, drinking and dining scenes. Lonely Planet will get you to the heart of Amsterdam, with amazing travel experiences and t…
"Amsterdam's compact core is laced by atmospheric lanes and quarters. You never know what you'll find: a hidden garden, a jenever distillery, even an old monastery turned music venue."--Karla Zimmerman, Lonely Planet Writer.
Looks closely at Anne Frank's life before the secret annex, what life was like in hiding from the Nazis, and the legacy of her diary.
This tour guide to Amsterdam is your passport to all the most relevant and up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip and what hidden discoveries await you. Feast your eyes on Rembrandts and Vermeers at the reopened Rijksmuseum, ease into the mellowatmosphere of a brown cafe…
Tourists know Amsterdam as a picturesque city of low-slung brick houses lining tidy canals; student travelers know it for its legal brothels and hash bars; art lovers know it for Rembrandt's glorious portraits. But the deeper history of Amsterdam, what makes it one of the most f…
Amsterdam was, after London and Paris, the third largest city in early modern Europe, and was renowned throughout Europe for its widespread and visible prostitution. Delving deep into a wide range of sources, but making particular use of the transcripts of thousands of trials, T…
"The Merchant Republics" analyzes the ways in which three major economic powerhouses - Amsterdam, Antwerp and Hamburg - developed dual identities as 'communities of commerce' and as republics over the course of the long eighteenth century (c.1648-1790). In addition to discussing…