Madrid

Madrid
Author: Luke Stegemann
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 485
Release: 2024-08-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300276338

The miraculous story of Madrid--how a village became a great world city For centuries Madrid was an insignificant settlement on the central Iberian plateau. Under its Muslim rulers the town was fortified and enlarged, but even after the Reconquista it remained secondary to nearby Toledo. But Madrid's fortunes dramatically shifted in the sixteenth century, becoming the centre of a vast global empire. Luke Stegemann tells the surprising story of Madrid's flourishing, and its outsize influence across the world. From Cervantes and Quevedo to Velázquez and Goya, Spain's capital has been home to some of Europe's most influential artists and thinkers. It formed a vital link between Europe and the Americas and became a cauldron of political dissent--not least during the Spanish Civil War, when the city was on the frontline in the fight against fascism. Stegemann places Madrid and its people in global context, showing how the city--fast overtaking Barcelona as a centre of international finance and cultural tourism--has become a melting pot at the heart of Europe and the wider Hispanic world.

Atlas ilustrado de la Comunidad de Madrid

Atlas ilustrado de la Comunidad de Madrid
Author: Pedro López Carcelén
Publisher:
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9788496470583

Historia visual de la Comunidad de Madrid. Lo sucedido a lo largo de los siglos; su geografía, su flora y su fauna, pueblo a pueblo. Pedro López es un dibujante y diseñador capaz de convertir cualquier plano en una interpretación tridimensional de la realidad, dándole un aspecto de fácil consulta y claridad de orientación. Es autor igualmente de los textos históricos que acompañan los dibujos.

Madrid

Madrid
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1995
Genre: Madrid (Spain)
ISBN: 9788477823711

The Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil War
Author: Charles J Esdaile
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2018-10-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0429859295

The Spanish Civil War: A Military History takes a new, military approach to the conflict that tore Spain apart from 1936 to 1939. In many histories, the war has been treated as a primarily political event with the military narrative subsumed into a much broader picture of the Spain of 1936–9 in which the chief themes are revolution and counter-revolution. While remaining conscious of the politics of the struggle, this book looks at the war as above all a military event, and as one in whose outbreak specifically military issues – particularly the split in the armed forces produced by the long struggle in Morocco (1909–27) – were fundamental. Across nine chapters that consider the war from beginning to endgame, Charles J. Esdaile revisits traditional themes from a new perspective, deconstructs many epics and puts received ideas to the test, as well as introducing readers to foreign-language historiography that has previously been largely inaccessible to an anglophone audience. In taking this new approach, The Spanish Civil War: A Military History is essential reading for all students of twentieth-century Spain.

History of Machines for Heritage and Engineering Development

History of Machines for Heritage and Engineering Development
Author: J. M. de la Portilla
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2011-06-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9400712510

This volume contains a selection of papers whose content have been presented at the International conferences CIPHI on Cultural Heritage and History of Engineering at University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands, Spain, in recent years. The conference series is aimed at bringing together researchers, scholars and students from a broad range of disciplines referring to the History of Engineering and Cultural Heritage, in a unique multidisciplinary forum to stimulate collaboration among historians, architects, restaurateurs, and engineers. These papers illustrate, by treating specific emblematic topics and problems, technical developments in the historical evolution of engineering concerning cultural heritage. Thus, emphasis is given to a discussion of matters of cultural heritage with engineering history by reporting authors’ experiences and views. Topics treated include: reutilization of industrial heritage: the unique example of the Royal Segovia Mint in Spain; the image of factories; Pedro Juan De Lastanosa and “the twenty-one books of devices and machines of Juanelo”; the historical development of paper-mills and their machines in South Latium during 19th century; a virtual reconstruction of a wave-powered flour mill from 1801; 3D modelling and animation study of the industrial heritage wonders; a new model of the hydraulic machine known as “el artificio de Juanelo”; and the mystery of one Havana portrait, on the first steam machine in Cuba. This work has been made possible thanks to the invited authors who have enthusiastically shared this initiative and who have spent time and effort in preparing the papers in much more detail that in the conference presentations.