Contents

pp 5-6

Acknowledgments

pp 7-8

Introduction

1 - Amsterdam and the Global Imaginary

pp 9-24

Part I - Historicizing Global Amsterdam

pp 25-26

2 - Imagining Social Change in Early-Modern Amsterdam: Global Processes, Local Perceptions

pp 27-44

3 - Amidst Unscrupulous Neighbours: Amsterdam Money and Foreign Interests in Dutch Patriotic Imagery

pp 45-66

4 - Visualizing Commerce and Empire: Decorating the Built Environment of Amsterdam

pp 67-82

5 - Romance and Commerce: Imagining Global Amsterdam in the Contemporary Historical Novel

pp 83-100

6 - Dutch Decline Redux: Remembering New Amsterdam in the Global and Cosmopolitan Novel

pp 101-122

Part II - Amsterdam Global Village: (Inter)National Imaginings

pp 123-124

7 - Form, Punch, Caress: Johan van der Keuken’s Global Amsterdam

pp 125-142

8 - Rembrandt on Screen: Art Cinema, Cultural Heritage, and the Museumization of Urban Space

pp 143-168

9 - Imagining a Global Village: Amsterdam in Janwillem van de Wetering’s Detective Fiction

pp 169-186

10 - Amsterdam, City of Sirens: On Hafid Bouazza’s Short Story ‘Apolline’

pp 187-198

Part III - Global Amsterdam’s Cultural Geography

pp 199-200

11 - Amsterdam and/as New Babylon: Urban Modernity’s Contested Trajectories

pp 201-218

12 - Amsterdam’s Architectural Image from Early-Modern Print Series to Global Heritage Discourse

pp 219-238

13 - Amsterdam Memorials, Multiculturalism, and the Debate on Dutch Identity

pp 239-254

14 - Graphic Design, Globalization, and Placemaking in the Neighbourhoods of Amsterdam

pp 255-272

15 - A Global Red-Light City? Prostitution in Amsterdam as a Real-and-Imagined Place

pp 273-288

16 - Global Eros in Amsterdam: Religion, Sex, Politics

pp 289-304

Contributors

pp 305-308

Index

pp 309-316