Format:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 129 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
1859736467
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1859736513
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9781845206222
Content:
Despite its international significance, Madrid has been almost entirely ignored by urban, literary and cultural studies published in English. A Cultural History of Madrid: Modernism and the Urban Spectacle corrects that oversight by presenting an urb an and cultural history of the city from the turn of the century to the early 1930s. Between 1900 and 1930, Madrids population doubled to almost one million, with less than half the population being indigenous to the city itself. Far from the Castili an capital it was made out to be, Madrid was fast becoming a socially magnetic, increasingly secul
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-125) and index
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Preliminaries; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction The Castizo Metropolis; 2 Madrid Villa y Corte; 3 The Nineteenth Century Capital; 4 City of Contrasts; 5 Cosmopolitan Lights; 6 Urban Cosmorama; 7 Epilogue; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781859736517
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe A Cultural History of Madrid : Modernism and the Urban Spectacle
Language:
English
