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Madrid : A New Biography.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stegemann, Luke.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Madrid (Spain).
- Madrid (Spain)--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (485 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- The miraculous story of Madrid—how a village became a great world cityFor centuries Madrid was an insignificant settlement on the central Iberian plateau. Under its Muslim rulers the town was fortified and enlarged, but even after the Reconquista it remained secondary to nearby Toledo. But Madrid’s fortunes dramatically shifted in the sixteenth century, becoming the centre of a vast global empire.Luke Stegemann tells the surprising story of Madrid’s flourishing, and its outsize influence across the world. From Cervantes and Quevedo to Velázquez and Goya, Spain’s capital has been home to some of Europe’s most influential artists and thinkers. It formed a vital link between Europe and the Americas and became a cauldron of political dissent—not least during the Spanish Civil War, when the city was on the frontline in the fight against fascism.Stegemann places Madrid and its people in global context, showing how the city—fast overtaking Barcelona as a centre of international finance and cultural tourism—has become a melting pot at the heart of Europe and the wider Hispanic world.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Halftitle page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Maps
- A note on usage
- A city remembered, a city imagined
- I VILLAGE: From the Iron Age to 1516
- In Carpetania
- Hispania
- The first heretics
- Heaven and earth
- Butcher, soldier, pastor, lord
- Work and prayer
- The emergence of Castile
- The great turn
- II EMPIRE: 1516-1759
- Gold trimmed with lead
- Strange universe
- Carnival and Lent
- Sic transit gloria mundi
- The court of the Planet King
- Velázquez and Teixeira
- Regime change
- New absolutisms
- A conflagration
- Plates
- III CITY: 1759-1975
- The spring of hope
- The winter of despair
- Stasis and discovery
- The emerging metropolis
- Pleasures and anxieties
- New hopes, new conflicts
- The city under siege
- Ways of healing
- IV WORLD: Into the twenty-first century
- The world turned upside down
- The new behemoth
- Hermosa Babilonia
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780300280678
- OCLC:
- 1446803378
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