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.
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.
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, 15002000
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: 1500Present
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 (19091973)
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, 19711998
22. Music in
Early Modern Madrid, 15601703
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 (18081898)
36. Politics in Madrid: From 1898 through the Second
Republic
37. The Many Wars of Madrid (19361939): Everyday Life and Everyday
Violence
38. Francos City, 19391975
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
Juan Carlos Sola Corbacho received his PhD from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He has worked at several academic institutions in the United States and Spain, including the Honors College of Texas Christian University.
Jodi Campbell is Professor Emerita at Texas Christian University. She is a scholar of early modern Spanish cultural and political history, and the author of At the First Table: Food and Social Identity in Early Modern Spain (2017).
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