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Europe's Babylon: The Rise and Fall of Antwerp's Golden Age Horror_Gift_Guide and a complexA revelatory history of Antwerpfrom its rise to a world city to its fall in the Spanish Furyby the New York Times Notable author of The Edge of the World. Before Amsterdam, there was a dazzling North Sea port at the hub of the known world: the city of Antwerp. In the Age of Exploration, Antwerp was sensational like nineteenth century Paris or twentieth century New York. It was somewhere anything could happen or at least be believed: killer bankers,