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

When the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the truth about its thriving, poly...

Taking Manhattan

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

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

Ámsterdam : historia de la ciudad más liberal del mundo

'Published in conjunction with the exhibition Dutch New York: the roots of Hudson Valley culture,...

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)...

'Published in conjunction with the exhibition Dutch New York: the roots of Hudson Valley culture,...

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

Smalltime is a mob story straight out of central casting-but with a difference, for the small-tow...