AmsterdamAmsterdam is not just any city. Despite its relative size, it has stood alongside its larger cousinsParis, London, Berlinand has influenced the modern world to a degree that few other cities have. Sweeping across the city's colourful thousand year history, Amsterdam will bring the place to life: its sights and smells; its politics and people. Focusing on two significant periodsthe late 1500s to the mid 1600s and then from the Second World War to the