Het grachtenboek
Author | : Paul Spies |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Amsterdam |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Paul Spies |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Amsterdam |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Freek Schmidt |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2017-07-28 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1134797044 |
Passion and Control explores Dutch architectural culture of the eighteenth century, revealing the central importance of architecture to society in this period and redefining long-established paradigms of early modern architectural history. Architecture was a passion for many of the men and women in this book; wealthy patrons, burgomasters, princes and scientists were all in turn infected with architectural mania. It was a passion shared with artists, architects and builders, and a vast cast of Dutch society who contributed to a complex web of architectural discourse and who influenced building practice. The author presents a rich tapestry of sources to reconstruct the cultural context and meaning of these buildings as they were perceived by contemporaries, including representations in texts, drawings and prints, and builds on recent research by cultural historians on consumerism, material culture and luxury, print culture and the public sphere, and the history of ideas and mentalities.
Author | : Marco de Waard |
Publisher | : Amsterdam University Press |
Total Pages | : 632 |
Release | : 2012-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9089643672 |
Imagining Global Amsterdam gaat over het beeld van Amsterdam in film, literatuur, visuele kunst en in het moderne stedelijke discours, in het bijzonder in de context van de mondialisering. De essays gaan onder andere dieper in op Amsterdam als een lieu de mémoire van de vroeg-moderne wereldhandel. Wat betekent deze herinnering in de hedendaagse cultuur? Waarom verwijzen zo veel contemporaine films en romans naar dit verleden terug? Ook het (inter)nationale imago van Amsterdam als een multicultureel en ultra-tolerant ‘%x;global village’%x; komt aan bod. Waarom is dit beeld zo persistent, en hoe heeft het zich in de loop van de laatste decennia ontwikkeld? Tot slot wordt ingegaan op de vraag hoe mondialiseringsprocessen ingrijpen in de stadscultuur, zoals in het prostitutiegebied op de Wallen en via de erfgoedindustrie. Hoe manifesteert de mondialisering zich in de stad, en welke rol speelt beeldvorming daarbij? Deze bundel vormt een rijk geschakeerd onderzoek naar de relatie tussen Amsterdam, mondialisering en stedelijke beeldvorming. Marco de Waard is als docent literatuurwetenschap verbonden aan het Amsterdam University College.
Author | : Russell Shorto |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2014-08-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307743756 |
An 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 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 fascinating places on earth, is bound up in its unique geography-the constant battle of its citizens to keep the sea at bay and the democratic philosophy that this enduring struggle fostered. Amsterdam is the font of liberalism, in both its senses. Tolerance for free thinking and free love make it a place where, in the words of one of its mayors, "craziness is a value." But the city also fostered the deeper meaning of liberalism, one that profoundly influenced America: political and economic freedom. Amsterdam was home not only to religious dissidents and radical thinkers but to the world's first great global corporation. In this effortlessly erudite account, Russell Shorto traces the idiosyncratic evolution of Amsterdam, showing how such disparate elements as herring anatomy, naked Anabaptists parading through the streets, and an intimate gathering in a sixteenth-century wine-tasting room had a profound effect on Dutch-and world-history. Weaving in his own experiences of his adopted home, Shorto provides an ever-surprising, intellectually engaging story of Amsterdam.
Author | : Irene Cieraad |
Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2006-09-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780815629030 |
In a volume that brings together a wide range of disciplines—art history, sociology, architecture, cultural anthropology, and environmental psychology—Irene Cieraad presents a collection of articles that focuses on the practices and symbolism of domestic space in Western society. These essays go beyond the discussion of conventional issues such as aesthetics and social standing. At Home takes an in-depth anthropological look at how different cultures use their homes as a visual model of the culture's social structure.
Author | : Elisabeth Paling Funk |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2011-09-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1438435975 |
New Netherland's distinctive regional history as well as the colony's many relationships with Europe and the seventeenth-century Atlantic world are featured in the second collection of papers from the widely praised annual Rensselaerwijck Seminar. Leading scholars from both sides of the Atlantic critique and offer the latest research on a dynamic range of topics: the age of exploration, domestic life in New Netherland, the history and significance of the West India Company, the complex era of Jacob Leisler, the southern frontier lands of the colony, relations with New England, Dutch foodways in the Hudson Valley and their use of beer, the endurance of the Dutch legacy into 19th century New York, and contemporary genealogical research on colonial Dutch ancestors. Cogent and informative, these papers are an indispensable source for better understanding the lives and legacies of the long ago New Netherland colony.
Author | : André van Os |
Publisher | : Oxford, England : Clio Press |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
The Internet editor for the Netherlands Programme Service has compiled annotated entries on primarily English-language works dealing with Amsterdam's history, geography, economy, politics, demographics, and sociocultural aspects of daily living (e.g., customs, education, literature, the media, religion--including Jewish life, and sports). Includes a map of this "cosmopolitan village" and useful addresses. Indexed by author, title, and subject. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Abigail Adams |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781555535223 |
The story of the Adamses as lovers, domestic partners, and patriots comes to life in this collection of their intimate correspondence.
Author | : David Freeman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2020-04-30 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1108417493 |
Illuminates Dutch participation in Latin-American colonial trade while revising the standard historical argument of illegal 'contraband' trading and 'corrupt' officials.
Author | : Hentie Louw |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 2024-06-05 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1036402487 |
This book explores the transformation of the window during the Early Modern Period in Europe. Following the Italian Renaissance, new stylistic norms for modern ‘classical windows’ had to be invented. Building a new classical repertoire drew on existing traditions in fenestration as local builders throughout Europe struggled with the constraints of varying climatic conditions, customs and physical resources in pursuit of a broader vision of an international classical revival. With the Renaissance, the architectural emphasis shifted towards secular design and, as the classical revival gained momentum, a quest for a cultured lifestyle commensurate with the new architecture increased demand for sophisticated fenestration systems in civil architecture. The movement coincided with a period of dramatic climate change, the so-called Little Ice Age (c. 1450 – c.1850), adding urgency to the campaign for transforming fenestration practice. By the late seventeenth century, Northern European builders had developed appropriate indigenous ‘classical’ window forms for their respective societies – functional products sophisticated enough to form the basis of new architectural styles: northern classical traditions that rivalled (and in some respects, surpassed) those created in Italy. Their achievement was embodied in the two flagships of the movement: the Franco-Italian folding casement (the ‘French window’), and the English mechanical sliding window (the ‘sash window’).