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- ISBN 9789464565584
- Weight: 780g
- Dimensions: 210 x 260mm
- Publication Date: 24 Jul 2025
- Publisher: Lanasta
- Publication City/Country: NL
- Product Form: Hardback
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Amsterdam 750 Years tells the city’s history as it has never been told before. With hundreds of stories about unknown Amsterdammers, about special places, about visitors, migrants, traders, scientists, ministers, slumlords, workers, hustlers, and capitalists. Not about the great white men with their starched white collars of yesteryear, but about Rembrandt’s Black neighbors, the construction of the Greek Orthodox Church, the arrival of an elephant in the city, the clash in Café Zincken between socialists and police, and how immigrants from former Dutch Indies settled in Geuzenveld in the 1950s (bringing rock’n’roll with them).
Koen Kleijn is the editor-in-chief of Ons Amsterdam. He previously published The Canals of Amsterdam (2013). He has also written about the history of the University Library, the Port of Amsterdam, and the gardens in the canal belt.|Jitske Hell is an editor at Ons Amsterdam. She previously served as an editor at the history platform Utrecht Time Machine.|Janna Toepoel is an editor at Ons Amsterdam and has written for 7Days, Het Parool, and Over Multatuli.
