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Table of contents
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Amsterdam and the Global Imaginary
- Part I: Historicizing Global Amsterdam
- 2. Imagining Social Change in Early-Modern Amsterdam: Global Processes, Local Perceptions
- 3. Amidst Unscrupulous Neighbours: Amsterdam Money and Foreign Interests in Dutch Patriotic Imagery
- 4. Visualizing Commerce and Empire: Decorating the Built Environment of Amsterdam
- 5. Romance and Commerce: Imagining Global Amsterdam in the Contemporary Historical Novel
- 6. Dutch Decline Redux: Remembering New Amsterdam in the Global and Cosmopolitan Novel
- Part II: Amsterdam Global Village: (Inter)National Imaginings
- 7. Form, Punch, Caress: Johan van der Keuken’s Global Amsterdam
- 8. Rembrandt on Screen: Art Cinema, Cultural Heritage, and the Museumization of Urban Space
- 9. Imagining a Global Village: Amsterdam in Janwillem van de Wetering’s Detective Fiction
- 10. Amsterdam, City of Sirens: On Hafid Bouazza’s Short Story ‘Apolline’
- Part III: Global Amsterdam’s Cultural Geography
- 11. Amsterdam and/as New Babylon: Urban Modernity’s Contested Trajectories
- 12. Amsterdam’s Architectural Image from Early- Modern Print Series to Global Heritage Discourse
- 13. Amsterdam Memorials, Multiculturalism, and the Debate on Dutch Identity
- 14. Graphic Design, Globalization, and Placemaking in the Neighbourhoods of Amsterdam
- 15. A Global Red-Light City? Prostitution in Amsterdam as a Real-and-Imagined Place
- 16. Global Eros in Amsterdam: Religion, Sex, Politics
- Contributors
- Index