Catalonia : a Cultural History.

Squeezed between more powerful France and Spain, Catalonia has endured a violent history. Its medieval empire that conquered Naples, Sicily and Athens was crushed by Spain. Its geography, with the Pyrenees falling sharply to the rugged Costa Brava, is tormented, too. Michael Eaude traces this histor...

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Main Author: Eaude, Michael
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Luton : Andrews UK, 2011.
Series:Landscapes of the Imagination, 6.
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505 0 |a Cover; Contents; Front Matter; Title Page; Publisher Information; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction -- Thoroughfare and Nation; Birth and Rebirth of a Nation; Portbou and Montserrat: Sea and Mountain; Ghost Town; Stephen Spender's Divided Heart; Trapped: Walter Benjamin's Last Night; Dark Lady of the Mountains: Montserrat; Mediterranean, the Centre of the Earth: Tarragona; The City that Speaks Latin; Empúries: "whispering centuries of ghosts"; Wetlands: the Empordà; Romanesque Catalonia: The Pyrenees; Hispanic Marches; Barrel Vaults and Towers; The Boí Valley. 
505 8 |a Besalú and Girona: the Jewish TragedyGlory and Rapine: Poblet and Athens; "A great feudal monastery"; Peace and Conquest; Imperial Rapine; The Poet-Priest and the Indiano: Verdaguer and Antonio López; The Renaissance; Peasant Son and Poet; Triumph and Fall; The Slave-Trading Philanthropist; The Lancashire of Spain: Gaudí and Güell; Putting out the Fires of Revolt; Indianos; Santa Coloma Colony; The Chapel in the Woods; Geniuses; Fleeing the Straight and Narrow: Gaudí and Reus; Reus: Wealth in Stone; Gaudí; Gaudí's Reputation; Palau Güell; Sant Pau and the Sagrada Família. 
505 8 |a The Birth of Modern Painting: Rusiñol at Sitges, Casas and Pablo PicassoThe Iron Burrow; Darwin's Monkey; The Vertical Invader; The Terminal Beach: Salvador Dalí; Castle and Theatre: Figueres; Ambivalent Legacy; Cadaqués; Feet Rooted to the Red Earth: Joan Miró; The Man Who Could Not Draw; Fundació Miró; I Come from a Silence: Catalan Music; Raimon; Chimes to the Dead; Traditional Roots; Yearning Havanera and Sexy Rumba; Tourism and War; The Sweaty Groin: Barcelona's Raval; Chinatown; Squalor and Gentrification; Rambling; The Gothic Quarter, Barcelona; The Museum-City; Cathedral and Cloister. 
505 8 |a Plaça del ReiSanta Maria del Mar; Mass Migration and Mass Tourism: Lloret; Contested Spaces; City of Noise; Package Holidays and the Changing Costa Brava; Lloret; Plain and River: Lleida and the Ebro; City of the Plain; Mequinensa: Drowned Town; Yellow Fog along the Ebro Valley; A Dying Delta; The Anarchist Dream: George Orwell and Revolution; Rose of Fire; Revolutionary Days: Orwell in Catalonia; Crushing the Revolution; The Landscape in the Pot: Food, Drink and Identity; Cava; Catalan Cuisine; The Boqueria: the Religion of Food; The Dalí of Cuisine; Cradle and Refuge: FC Barcelona. 
505 8 |a Triumph and TragedyFootball and Nationalism; Catalonia is not Spain; End Matter; Further Reading; Glossary; Also Available. 
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