Cities of Spain

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Unlike France and England, Spain has not been dominated by its capital, and the focus of its history shifts from city to city over the centuries, illuminating different features of the country's past. Toledo, Cordoba, Seville and Madrid have at various times managed to establish a political and cultural supremacy, Cadiz and Barcelona dominated the economy in the 18th and 19th centuries. Salanca housed one of the great universities of medieval Europe while Santiago became the second religious centre of Christendom. In CITIES OF SPAIN David Gilmour takes us on a journey from Visigothic kingdom and the Cordoban caliphate to the Madrid of today. The portrait of these cities both now and in the heyday reveal both their spirit and their significance, and allowed the reader an intimate view of one of Europe's most fascinating and intriguing countries.

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David Gilmour’s highly acclaimed works of contemporary history include The Transformation of Spain: From Franco to the Constitutional Monarchy and Lebanon: The Fractured Country. He is also the author of a recent novel, The Hungry Generations, and The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa, which won the Scottish Arts Council Spring Book Award and the Nelson Hurst and Marsh Biography Award in 1989. He contributes to numerous publications including The TLS, the London Review of Books and the Spectator, and is currently working on a biography of Lord Curzon. He lives in Edinburgh with his wife and four children.

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