Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Amsterdam and the Global Imaginary / Marco de Waard -- Cultural Mobility, Global Performativity -- Imagining Amsterdam, Imagining Globality -- History, Culture, and Geography in a World City -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part I: Historicizing Global Amsterdam -- 2. Imagining Social Change in Early-Modern Amsterdam: Global Processes, Local Perceptions / Ulrich Ufer -- Globalization and Global Systems in Historical Perspective -- Early-Modern Ideas of Social Change -- Positive Imaginaries of the Global City -- Ambivalent Imaginaries of the Global City -- Dystopian Imaginaries of the Global City -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 3. Amidst Unscrupulous Neighbours: Amsterdam Money and Foreign Interests in Dutch Patriotic Imagery / Dorothee Sturkenboom -- The Amsterdam Coffer -- Picturing Dutch versus Foreign Interests -- The Patriots' Economic Eyeglasses -- Metropolis versus Country -- Amsterdam Money and the Transnational Imagination -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 4. Visualizing Commerce and Empire: Decorating the Built Environment of Amsterdam / Michael Wintle -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 5. Romance and Commerce: Imagining Global Amsterdam in the Contemporary Historical Novel / Joyce Goggin and Erinc Salor -- Gambling, Speculation, Heritage -- Fictional Gambles and Other Risky Endeavours -- The Painterly Novel and the Heritage Business -- A Baroque Universe: Stephenson, Finance, Systems -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 6. Dutch Decline Redux: Remembering New Amsterdam in the Global and Cosmopolitan Novel / Marco de Waard -- 'Signs of Autumn' -- Cosmopolitanism, Authorship, and Literary Form -- Netherland: Tracing Memories of New Amsterdam -- The Thousand Autumns: Remembering Dejima and the Spectre of 'Dutch Decline' -- Conclusion: Towards a 'Memory of the Global Past'? -- Notes.

Works Cited -- Part II: Amsterdam Global Village: (Inter)National Imaginings -- 7. Form, Punch, Caress: Johan van der Keuken's Global Amsterdam / Patricia Pisters -- Form: Cramped Spaces, Cramped Minds -- Punch: Global Parallels -- Caress: The World Nearby -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Filmography -- Television -- 8. Rembrandt on Screen: Art Cinema, Cultural Heritage, and the Museumization of Urban Space / Marco de Waard -- 'Rembrandt 400' as Global Mega-Event -- 'Rembrandt 400' and the Museumization of Urban Space -- Peter Greenaway's Rembrandt Films and the Idea of Public Art -- A Spatial History of the Rembrandt Biopic -- Conclusion: Places into Non-Places -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Filmography -- 9. Imagining a Global Village: Amsterdam in Janwillem van de Wetering's Detective Fiction / Sabine Vanacker -- Introduction -- The City as Palimpsest -- Heroin Heaven and Anarchy -- Imagining Multicultural Amsterdam -- Works Cited -- 10. Amsterdam, City of Sirens: On Hafid Bouazza's Short Story 'Apolline' / Henriette Louwerse -- Cultural Re-Education -- Two Melancholy Monologues -- Alternative Vision -- Textual Play -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part III: Global Amsterdam's Cultural Geography -- 11. Amsterdam and/as New Babylon: Urban Modernity's Contested Trajectories / Mark E. Denaci -- New Babylon: Ambivalent Utopia? -- New Babylon as Metaphor for Amsterdam Today: Heterotopias of Freedom and Containment -- New Babylon as Dystopia: Zuidas and the Globalization of Amsterdam -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 12. Amsterdam's Architectural Image from Early-Modern Print Series to Global Heritage Discourse / Freek Schmidt -- Introduction -- Images of the City and Their Uses -- Mapping Amsterdam -- The Atlas Fouquet -- The Grachtenboek -- The Grachtenboek Rediscovered -- The Concept of the Grachtengordel -- Architecture and Image -- Works Cited.

13. Amsterdam Memorials, Multiculturalism, and the Debate on Dutch Identity / Jeoen Dewulf -- The Liberation of Amsterdam -- New Monuments for Amsterdam -- New Population Groups, Old Strategies -- The Return of Anti-Semitism -- Reterritorialization -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 14. Graphic Design, Globalization, and Placemaking in the Neighbourhoods of Amsterdam / Bharain Mac an Bhreithiun -- The I amsterdam Campaign, Placemaking, and Graphic Design -- Placemaking and Globalization: The Case of De Pijp -- Conclusion: Place as Process and Event -- Works Cited -- 15. A Global Red-Light City? Prostitution in Amsterdam as a Real-and-Imagined Place / Michael Deinema and Manuel B. Aalbers -- Introduction -- A Genealogy of Amsterdam Prostitution as Global, Real and Imagined -- Amsterdam's Imagined Moral Geography: Historical Roots and Shifts -- Trying to Control the Uncontrollable: Legalizing Prostitution and Plan 1012 -- New Control Efforts in the Globalized Red Light District -- Ravaged Prostitutes and Outperformed Amsterdam -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 16. Global Eros in Amsterdam: Religion, Sex, Politics / Markha Valenta -- Prelude -- A Story -- A Second Story -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index.