The Routledge Handbook of the History of Madrid

Introduction
Juan Carlos Sola Corbacho and Jodi Campbell

PART 1 Geography and urban development

1 The most Spanish of all cities: Madrid before the sixteenth century

2 The establishment of the court in Madrid

3 Architecture and engineering in eighteenth‑ and nineteenth‑century Madrid

4 Urban planning and growth throughout the twentieth century

5 The book trade in Madrid: observations on book studies

Fernando García Naharro

6 Newspapers and journalists

7 The literature of Madrid

8 Spaces of knowledge: a historiographical study of cultural institutions

9 Cultural and intellectual movements in Madrid, 1500–2000

10 Bullfighting in Madrid: historical (and informative) significance of the “cathedral of bullfighting”

11 The food of Madrid through the centuries

12 Popular culture and traditions in the capital and court: 1500–present

13 The theatrical court city: playhouses and playgoing in early modern Madrid

14 Theater in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

15 From stage to scholarship: theater in Madrid during the twentieth and twenty‑first centuries

16 Art in Madrid during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: the cultural legacy of the Spanish golden age

17 Painting in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

18 Madrid: painting and modernity (1909–1973)

Patricia Mayayo

19 Art collecting, the art market and museums in Madrid: from Felipe II to Baron Thyssen‑Bornemisza

20 Cinema in Madrid: filming, culture, and representation

21 Photography as contemporary art, 1971–1998

22 Music in early modern Madrid, 1560–1703

23 Music in Madrid since 1700: genres, institutions, society, nation

24 Ballet in Madrid: milestones and historiography

25 Sport in Madrid: from the elites to the masses

26 La Movida Madrileña, revisiting the future

27 Court and capital: Felipe II and Madrid

28 Two prodigious decades and responses to a social historiographic crisis of growth

29 Social divisions, gender relations, and diversity in contemporary Madrid

30 Social marginality in modern Madrid

31 Gatos, chulapos, chisperos, and the shaping of social identities in Madrid

32 Villa y Corte

33 The Bourbon transition

34 The city under Carlos III

35 Politics in the nineteenth century (1808–1898)

36 Politics in Madrid: from 1898 through the Second Republic

37 The many wars of Madrid (1936–1939): everyday life and everyday violence

38 Franco’s city, 1939–1975

39 Madrid and the Spanish transition: historiography and memory

40 Madrid and democracy: modernization, crisis, and citizen mobilization toward a more democratic city

41 The early modern economy

Mauro Hernández

42 Economic development from the nineteenth to the twenty‑first centuries

43 The making of a business capital

Biography

Juan Carlos Sola Corbacho received his PhD from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He has worked at several academic institutions in the United States and Spain, including the Honors College of Texas Christian University.

Jodi Campbell is Professor Emerita at Texas Christian University. She is a scholar of early modern Spanish cultural and political history, and the author of At the First Table: Food and Social Identity in Early Modern Spain (2017).