LEADER 04603nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910457870203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-41181-4 010 $a9786613411815 010 $a1-908493-25-9 035 $a(CKB)2550000000069985 035 $a(EBL)800364 035 $a(OCoLC)763157371 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000673712 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11417179 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000673712 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10645101 035 $a(PQKB)10705991 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC800364 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL800364 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10517751 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000069985 100 $a20120112d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCatalonia$b[electronic resource] $ea cultural history /$fby Michael Eaude 210 $a[Luton] $cAndrews$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (312 p.) 225 1 $aLandscapes of the imagination 300 $aFirst published in 2007 by Signal Book. 311 $a1-904955-32-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aCover; 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; Empu?ries: "whispering centuries of ghosts"; Wetlands: the Emporda?; Romanesque Catalonia: The Pyrenees; Hispanic Marches; Barrel Vaults and Towers; The Boi? Valley 327 $aBesalu? 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 Lo?pez; The Renaissance; Peasant Son and Poet; Triumph and Fall; The Slave-Trading Philanthropist; The Lancashire of Spain: Gaudi? and Gu?ell; Putting out the Fires of Revolt; Indianos; Santa Coloma Colony; The Chapel in the Woods; Geniuses; Fleeing the Straight and Narrow: Gaudi? and Reus; Reus: Wealth in Stone; Gaudi?; Gaudi?'s Reputation; Palau Gu?ell; Sant Pau and the Sagrada Fami?lia 327 $aThe Birth of Modern Painting: Rusin?ol at Sitges, Casas and Pablo PicassoThe Iron Burrow; Darwin's Monkey; The Vertical Invader; The Terminal Beach: Salvador Dali?; Castle and Theatre: Figueres; Ambivalent Legacy; Cadaque?s; Feet Rooted to the Red Earth: Joan Miro?; The Man Who Could Not Draw; Fundacio? Miro?; 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 327 $aPlac?a 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 Dali? of Cuisine; Cradle and Refuge: FC Barcelona 327 $aTriumph and TragedyFootball and Nationalism; Catalonia is not Spain; End Matter; Further Reading; Glossary; Also Available 330 $aSqueezed between more powerful France and Spain, Catalonia has endured a violent history. Its medieval empire that conquered Naples, Sicily and Athens was crushed by Spain. Its geography, with the Pyrenees falling sharply to the rugged Costa Brava, is tormented, too.Michael Eaude traces this history and its monuments: Roman Tarragona, celebrated by the poet Martial; Greek Empuries, lost for centuries beneath the sands; medieval Romanesque architecture in the Vall de Boi churches (a World H... 410 0$aLandscapes of the imagination. 607 $aCatalonia (Spain)$xCivilization 608 $aElectronic books. 676 $a914.67 700 $aEaude$b Michael$0981616 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457870203321 996 $aCatalonia$92240366 997 $aUNINA