Main entry:

Fernández-Armesto, Felipe.

Title & Author:

Barcelona : a thousand years of the city's past / by Felipe Fernández-Armesto.

Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.

Description:

x, 262 pages ; 20 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-257) and index.
I. 'The Earth shall yield Rewards...': Barcelona and Her Landward Environment -- The Dog in the Night -- The Reach of the Hinterland -- The Coming of the Counts -- The Sea of Oysters -- The Rule of the Hinterland -- The Romanesque City -- The Communal Framework -- The Violent Polity -- The Civic Cockpit -- The Rise of the Bourgeoisie? -- II. '...And the Waves their Wealth': Barcelona and the Sea -- The Keys of Volition -- 'The Best Deed for a Hundred Years' -- Sicilian Vespers, Imperial Sundown -- Maghribi Protectorate, Barbary Trade -- The Allure of the Levant -- The Commercial Spirit -- The Tentacular City -- The Rediscovery of the Atlantic -- The Steamship Age and the Artificial Port -- III. 'More Spanish than Yourselves': Barcelona and Spain -- The Emulous Capitals -- 'Difficulties' or Decline? -- Renaissance and Recovery -- The Chasm of the Carrer de la Llibreteria -- The Agony of the Constitucions -- The Sweets of Defeat -- The Hierarchy of Work -- The Industrious Nation -- The End of Social Peace -- 'Smoke from the Volcanoes' -- The Spanish City -- IV. 'The Crucible of Hope': Barcelona and the Catalan World -- The Patchwork of Identity -- The Mirror of Catalanism -- The Revolt of the Pastrycooks -- The Speculator's Utopia -- The Realm of Icarus -- The Rebellions of 'Vermin' -- The View from the South-West Cemetery -- The City of Bombs -- The Victory Banquet -- The Crowd on the Empty Balconies
V. 'The Asylum of Modern Times': Barcelona and Europe -- Europe and Spain -- The Gothic Tradition -- 'Creative Bad Taste' -- The World of Els Quatre Gats -- The New Centurions -- The Bonds of the Fatherland -- The 'Ample Horizon' -- The Cockpit of a European Conflict -- 'Spain Has Arrived' -- 'The City of Prodigies'.

Resources:
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Publisher description

ISBN:

0192852736
9780192852731

Subject:

Travel.
Geschichte
Barcelona (Spain) History.
Barcelona (Spain) Description and travel.
Barcelone (Espagne) Histoire.
Spain Barcelona.
Barcelona
Catalonia (Spain) History

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 75205
Call No.: ID:92-B2472
Status: Available