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9780195376104

Andalucia A Cultural History

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  • ISBN13:

    9780195376104

  • ISBN10:

    0195376102

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-12-09
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

A garden at the foot of Europe and a crossroads between Spain, Africa and the New World, Andalucia has been a cultural customs house on the border of the Mediterranean and Atlantic civilizations for more than ten thousand years. This book traces its origins from the earliest hominid settlersin the Granada mountains 1.8 million years ago, through successive Phoenician, Greek, Roman and Muslim cultures, and the past five hundred years of modern Castilian rule, up to and including the present day of post-modern novelists in Cordoba and Sevilla, guerrilla urban archaeologists inTorremolinos and Marbella, and underground lo-fi bands in Granada and Malaga.

Author Biography


John Gill is the author of The Thomas Cook Guide to Seville and The Andalucia and the Essential Gaudi.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Garden of Earthly Delights
Iberia: From Prehistory to the Visigoths
Gardens of Stone
Tartessos
La Dama de Baza (Deities of Death)
Gadir/Cadiz
The Heavenly Cities of Baetica
Vandalucia
Al-Andalus: From Invasion to the Fall of Granada
Tariq's Rock
The Blackbird of Baghdad
Taming a Wilderness
The Library of Babel
Two Gentlemen of Cordoba
Espana: From Reconquest to the Twenty-First Century
1492
Taking the Garden Indoors
Nights in the Gardens of Spain
The Picasso Century
Englishmen Abroad
Federico Garcia Lorca's Last Night on Earth
Death in the Afternoon
The Shrimp from the Island
La Franja ("The Fringe")
Further Reading
Index
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