Catalonia a cultural history /

Eaude, Michael.

Catalonia a cultural history / [electronic resource] : Michael Eaude. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. - xvi, 281 p. : map. - Landscapes of the imagination . - Landscapes of the imagination. .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Birth and rebirth of a nation -- The first town in Spain (Portbou) -- Mediterranean : the center of the earth (Tarragona) -- Romanesque Catalonia : the Pyrenees -- Glory and rapine : Poblet and Athens -- The poet-priest and the indiano (Verdaguer) -- The Lancashire of Spain : Gaudi and Guell, Geniuses -- Fleeing the straight and narrow : Gaudi and Reus -- Modern painting : Rusinol at Sitges (Picasso) -- The terminal beach : Salvador Dali -- Feet rooted to the red earth : Joan Miro -- I Come from a silence : Raimon -- Tourism and war -- The sweaty groin, Barcelona's Raval -- The Gothic Quarter, Barcelona -- Mass migration and mass tourism : Lloret -- Plain and river. Lleida and the Ebro -- The anarchist dream : George Orwell -- The landscape in the pot -- Cradle and refuge : FC Barcelona.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780198043928 (electronic bk.)




Catalonia (Spain)--Civilization.


Electronic books.

DP302.C616 / E38 2008

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