Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Acknowledgments 7
4. Introduction
5. 1. Amsterdam and the Global Imaginary 9
6. Part I: Historicizing Global Amsterdam
7. 2. Imagining Social Change in Early-Modern Amsterdam: Global Processes, Local Perceptions 27
8. 3. Amidst Unscrupulous Neighbours: Amsterdam Money and Foreign Interests in Dutch Patriotic Imagery 45
9. 4. Visualizing Commerce and Empire: Decorating the Built Environment of Amsterdam 67
10. 5. Romance and Commerce: Imagining Global Amsterdam in the Contemporary Historical Novel 83
11. 6. Dutch Decline Redux: Remembering New Amsterdam in the Global and Cosmopolitan Novel 101
12. Part II: Amsterdam Global Village: (Inter)National Imaginings
13. 7. Form, Punch, Caress: Johan van der Keuken’s Global Amsterdam 125
14. 8. Rembrandt on Screen: Art Cinema, Cultural Heritage, and the Museumization of Urban Space 143
15. 9. Imagining a Global Village: Amsterdam in Janwillem van de Wetering’s Detective Fiction 169
16. 10. Amsterdam, City of Sirens: On Hafid Bouazza’s Short Story ‘Apolline’ 187
17. Part III: Global Amsterdam’s Cultural Geography
18. 11. Amsterdam and/as New Babylon: Urban Modernity’s Contested Trajectories 201
19. 12. Amsterdam’s Architectural Image from Early- Modern Print Series to Global Heritage Discourse 219
20. 13. Amsterdam Memorials, Multiculturalism, and the Debate on Dutch Identity 239
21. 14. Graphic Design, Globalization, and Placemaking in the Neighbourhoods of Amsterdam 255
22. 15. A Global Red-Light City? Prostitution in Amsterdam as a Real-and-Imagined Place 273
23. 16. Global Eros in Amsterdam: Religion, Sex, Politics 289
24. Contributors 305
25. Index 309