This handbook provides an overview of the history and historiography of Madrid, from its establishment as the seat of the royal court in 1561 to the present, with essays by leading scholars on a range of topics across culture, economics, politics, society, and urban development.
It offers a useful introduction to the main outlines of the city’s history for beginning scholars, identifies key lines of recent scholarship and debate for more advanced investigators, and provides substantial bibliographic and archival documentation to encourage future research. As a whole, the collection will allow readers to see the larger picture of the history of Madrid across five centuries and various disciplines, emphasizing its individual character as well as the areas where it fits best into broader Spanish and European currents.
The volume is aimed at scholars of urban history and those who specialize in the history of Spain from the sixteenth century to the present.
The most Spanish of all cities: Madrid before the sixteenth century
The book trade in Madrid: observations on book studies
Spaces of knowledge: a historiographical study of cultural institutions
Bullfighting in Madrid: historical (and informative) significance of the “cathedral of bullfighting”
The theatrical court city: playhouses and playgoing in early modern Madrid
From stage to scholarship: theater in Madrid during the twentieth and twenty‑first centuries
Art in Madrid during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: the cultural legacy of the Spanish golden age
Madrid: painting and modernity (1909–1973)
Art collecting, the art market and museums in Madrid: from Felipe II to Baron Thyssen‑Bornemisza
Cinema in Madrid: filming, culture, and representation
Music in Madrid since 1700: genres, institutions, society, nation
Ballet in Madrid: milestones and historiography
Sport in Madrid: from the elites to the masses
Politics in Madrid: from 1898 through the Second Republic
The many wars of Madrid (1936–1939): everyday life and everyday violence
Alejandro Pérez-Olivares, Daniel Oviedo Silva, Ainhoa Campos Posada
Madrid and the Spanish transition: historiography and memory
Madrid and democracy: modernization, crisis, and citizen mobilization toward a more democratic city
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