Madrid: A New Biography
An Australian Hispanist makes the case for a persistently underrated capital, from the Habsburg court through the 1936 siege to the Movida and after.
A city biography running from the Habsburg court through the siege of 1936 to the Movida and the present day, written by an Australian Hispanist who thinks Madrid has been persistently underrated among European capitals. It works as a gateway book: the sort that sends a reader off to buy eight others before they have finished it.
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Tyler Cowen
Madrid is now one of the world’s very very best cities. You can judge tomes like this by how many other books they induced you to read or buy, and in this case the number was eight.
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