A Short History of Seville

A Short History of Seville

  • Author: Sánchez Mantero, Rafael
  • Publisher: Sílex Ediciones
  • Serie: Signos
  • ISBN: 8477370397
  • Place of publication:  Madrid , Spain
  • Year of publication: 1992
  • Pages: 116

Un repaso a la historia de la ciudad de Sevilla en la que se perfilan los rasgos más significativos de sus personajes y de su urbanismo, tratado de una manera amena y rigurosa.

  • Cubierta
  • Portada
  • Copyright page
  • Índice
  • Foreword
  • Chapter I. The Seville of Argantonio
    • The Origins of Seville
    • The Mystery of the Tartessos
    • The Colonizations
    • The Turdetan Era
  • Chapter II. Iulia Romula Hispalis
    • The Arrival of the Romans
    • Caesar and Seville
    • Seville, Mirror of Rome
    • Seville's Emperors
  • Chapter III. The Sevilla of Saints Leandro and Isidore
    • The introduction of Christianity to Seville
    • The Barbarian Invasion
  • Chapter IV. Isbiliya Mora
    • The Moslem Conquest
    • From Emirate to Caliphate
    • Seville, Taifa Kingdom
    • Seville under the Almohades
  • Chapter V. The Saint King and the Wise King
    • The Reconquest
    • The Repopulation
    • The Control of Municipal Power
    • Late Medieval Seville
  • Chapter VI. The Seville of the Austrias
    • Seville and the Discovery of America
    • Seville between the Old and New World
    • The People of Seville and their activities
    • The Government of the City and its Institutions
    • Daily life in Seville under the Austrias
  • Chapter VII. The Seville of the Enlightenment
    • Nostalgia for the Golden Age
    • Seville and the new Dynasty
    • Society and Economy in the Eighteenth Century
    • The Seville of the City Official Olavide
  • Chapter VIII. Romantic and Liberal Seville
    • Seville in the War of Independance
    • Fernando VII's reign
    • The era of Isabel II
    • From Revolution to Restoration
  • Chapter IX - Seville between Expo'29 and Expo'92
    • Seville in the early 20th Century
    • The Republic and the Civil War
    • Seville from Franco to Democratic Monarchy
  • Bibliography
  • Chronology
  • Contracubierta

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