An endlessly entertaining portrait of the unique city of Amsterdam, by the author of the acclaime...

Amsterdam is not just any city. Despite its relative size it has stood alongside its larger cousi...

Taking Manhattan

Sixteen years after René Descartes' death in Stockholm in 1650, a pious French ambassador exhumed...

Best-selling author Russell Shorto, praised for his incisive works of narrative history, never th...

¿Cómo fue posible que una pequeña ciudad, fundada sobre la endeble base de ciénagas y pantanos, c...

At a time when America's founding principles are being debated as never before, Russell Shorto lo...

Russell Shorto's work has been praised as 'first-rate intellectual history' (Wall Street Journal)...

In a riveting, groundbreaking narrative, Russell Shorto tells the story of New Netherland, the Du...

In 1664, England decided to invade the Dutch-controlled city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island...

'Narratively irresistible, intellectually provocative, historically invaluable' Simon Callow, Gua...