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 : Gaudí and Güell, Geniuses -- Fleeing the straight and narrow : Gaudí and Reus -- Modern painting : Rusiñol at Sitges (Picasso) -- The terminal beach : Salvador Dalí -- Feet rooted to the red earth : Joan Miró -- 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.


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Catalonia (Spain)--Civilization.


Electronic books.

DP302.C616 / E38 2008eb

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