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Contestatrice e poco patriottica, antimonumentale e pragmatica, tesa verso il futuro e separata dal resto del paese, Amsterdam è, più che una città, un piccolo universo fortemente caratterizzato e ricco di fascino. Il libro di Geert Mak ne racconta la storia dalle origini, quando, dopo l'anno Mille, Amsterdam nacque da un conglomerato di villaggi lungo il fiume Amstel e divenne ben presto un baluardo di libertà e rivoluzione: dalle lotte di in...

Zondag 7 juni 1652 maakte een ongekend felle brand in het oude middeleeuwse stadhuis van Amsterdam de weg vrij voor nieuwe tijden. Het `ijs lijck rottenest werd vervangen door een gloednieuw gebouw van ongekende omvang en allure, een stadspaleis dat in alles de vreze voor God en Staat weerspiegelde, en de volmaakte ordening van Gods schepping. Geert Mak analyseert in deze monografie de grote greep naar `volcomenheit van de `vinder van het gebo...

Previously published in English as: Jorwerd.

A social history and alternative travel guide written by a prominent Dutch journalist. 40 b/w photos.

Born in Friesland himself, Geert Mak explores the "silent revolution" that took place in the small village of Jorwerd after World War II. By interweaving the personal stories of villagers with the wider history of Europe, he demonstrates how rural life is under threat from the modern world.

Geert Mak is a journalist and historian, and one of The Netherlands' bestselling writers, his books include An Island in Time, Amsterdam and In Europe, and have won many prizes.

From the First World War to the waning days of the Cold War, a poignant exploration on what it means to be European at the end of the twentieth-century. Geert Mak crisscrosses Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Srebrenica in search of evidence and witnesses of the last hundred years of Europe. Using his skills as an acclaimed journalist, Mak locates the smaller, personal stories within the epic arc of history-talking to a former...

Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, St Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of Europe at the verge of a new millennium. The result is mesmerising: as a sharp-eyed journalist and a hugely imaginative historian, Mak makes IN EUROPE a dazzling account of that journey, full of diaries,...