Madrid : a new biography / Luke Stegemann.

Stegemann, Luke, author

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2024.

480 pages : illustrations (colour), maps (colour) ; 24 cm

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.

9780300276336 (hbk)

946.41

DP354

946.41

English

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