LEADER 04580nam 2200577 a 450 001 9910828604803321 005 20230926165025.0 010 $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$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCatalonia $ea cultural history /$fby Michael Eaude 210 1$a[Luton] :$cAndrews,$d2011. 215 $a1 online resource (312 pages) 225 1 $aLandscapes of the imagination 300 $aFirst published in 2007 by Signal Book. 311 0 $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 Tragedy; Glory 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 Picasso; The 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 Rei; Santa 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; Triumph and Tragedy; Football 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 676 $a914.67 700 $aEaude$b Michael$01626776 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828604803321 996 $aCatalonia$93963006 997 $aUNINA