Routledge Handbook of the History of Madrid

Edited by Jodi Campbell,Juan Carlos Sola Corbacho

ISBN13: 9781032437910

Imprint: Routledge

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Published: 24/11/2025

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Description
This handbook provides an overview of the history and historiography of Madrid from its establishment as the court in 1561 to the present, with essays by leading scholars on a range of topics across culture, economics, politics, society, and urban development. It offers a useful introduction to the main outlines of the city’s history for beginning scholars, identifies key lines of recent scholarship and debate for more advanced investigators, and provides substantial bibliographic and archival documentation to encourage future research. As a whole, the collection will allow readers to see the larger picture of the history of Madrid across five centuries and various disciplines, emphasizing its individual character as well as the areas where it fits best into broader Spanish and European currents. The volume is aimed at scholars of urban history and those who specialize in the history of Spain from the sixteenth century to the present.
Introduction Part 1: Geography and Urban Development 1. The Most Spanish of All Cities: Madrid before the Sixteenth Century 2. The Establishment of the Court in Madrid 3. Architecture and Engineering in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Madrid 4. Urban Planning and Growth throughout the Twentieth Century Part 2: Culture 5. The Book Trade in Madrid: Observations on Book Studies 6. Newspapers and Journalists 7. The Literature of Madrid 8. Spaces of Knowledge: A Historiographical Study of Cultural Institutions 9. Cultural and Intellectual Movements in Madrid, 1500–2000 10. Bullfighting in Madrid: Historical (and Informative) Significance of the “Cathedral of Bullfighting” 11. The Food of Madrid through the Centuries 12. Popular Culture and Traditions in the Capital and Court: 1500–Present 13. The Theatrical Court City: Playhouses and Playgoing in Early Modern Madrid 14. Theater in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 15. From Stage to Scholarship: Theater in Madrid during the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 16. Art in Madrid during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: The Cultural Legacy of the Spanish Golden Age 17. Painting in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 18. Madrid: Painting and Modernity (1909–1973) 19. Art Collecting, the Art Market, and Museums in Madrid: From Felipe II to Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza 20. Cinema in Madrid: Filming, Culture, and Representation 21. Photography as Contemporary Art, 1971–1998 22. Music in Early Modern Madrid, 1560–1703 23. Music in Madrid since 1700: Genres, Institutions, Society, Nation 24. Ballet in Madrid: Milestones and Historioigraphy 25. Sport in Madrid: From the Elites to the Masses 26. La Movida Madrileña, Revisiting the Future Part 3: Society 27. Court and Capital: Felipe II and Madrid 28. Two Prodigious Decades and Responses to a Social Historiographic Crisis of Growth 29. Social Divisions, Gender Relations, and Diversity in Contemporary Madrid 30. Social Marginality in Modern Madrid 31. Gatos, Chulapos, Chisperos, and the Shaping of Social Identities in Madrid Part 4: Politics 32. Villa y Corte 33. The Bourbon Transition 34. The City Under Carlos III 35. Politics in the Nineteenth Century (1808–1898) 36. Politics in Madrid: From 1898 through the Second Republic 37. The Many Wars of Madrid (1936–1939): Everyday Life and Everyday Violence 38. Franco’s City, 1939–1975 39. Madrid and the Spanish Transition: Historiography and Memory 40. Madrid and Democracy: Modernization, Crisis, and Citizen Mobilization Towards a More Democratic City Part 5: Economy 41. The Early Modern Economy 42. Economic Development from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century 43. The Making of a Business Capital
  • European history
  • Hispanic & Latino studies
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
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