Introduction
Juan Carlos Sola Corbacho and Jodi Campbell
PART 1 Geography and urban development
1 The most Spanish of all cities: Madrid before the sixteenth century
Kyle C. Lincoln
2 The establishment of the court in Madrid
Félix Díaz Moreno
3 Architecture and engineering in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Madrid
Daniel Crespo Delgado
4 Urban planning and growth throughout the twentieth century
Álvaro Ardura Urquiaga
PART 2 Culture
5 The book trade in Madrid: observations on book studies
Fernando García Naharro
6 Newspapers and journalists
Javier Diaz-Noci
7 The literature of Madrid
Elizabeth Amann, Maxim Rigaux and Nettah Yoeli-Rimmer
8 Spaces of knowledge: a historiographical study of cultural institutions
Álvaro Ribagorda
9 Cultural and intellectual movements in Madrid, 1500-2000
David Jiménez Torres
10 Bullfighting in Madrid: historical (and informative) significance of the 'cathedral of bullfighting'
María Verónica de Haro de San Mateo
11 The food of Madrid through the centuries
Maria Paz Moreno
12 Popular culture and traditions in the capital and court: 1500-present
Pablo Sánchez León
13 The theatrical court city: playhouses and playgoing in early modern Madrid
Rachael Irene Ball
14 Theater in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Óscar Ruiz Hernández
15 From stage to scholarship: theater in Madrid during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
Diego Santos Sánchez
16 Art in Madrid during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: the cultural legacy of the Spanish golden age
Patricia Manzano Rodríguez
17 Painting in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
María Teresa Cruz Yábar
18 Madrid: painting and modernity (1909-1973)
Patricia Mayayo
19 Art collecting, the art market and museums in Madrid: from Felipe II to Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza
Pedro J. Martínez Plaza
20 Cinema in Madrid: filming, culture, and representation
Ricardo Jimeno Aranda
21 Photography as contemporary art, 1971-1998
Juan Albarrán Diego and Olga Fernández López
22 Music in early modern Madrid, 1560-1703
Thomas Neal
23 Music in Madrid since 1700: genres, institutions, society, nation
Clinton D. Young
24 Ballet in Madrid: milestones and historiography
Laura Hormigón
25 Sport in Madrid: from the elites to the masses
Juan Antonio Simón
26 La Movida Madrileña, revisiting the future
H. Rosi Song
PART 3 Society
27 Court and capital: Felipe II and Madrid
Edward Behrend-Martinez
28 Two prodigious decades and responses to a social historiographic crisis of growth
José Antolín Nieto Sánchez
29 Social divisions, gender relations, and diversity in contemporary Madrid
Rubén Pallol Trigueros
30 Social marginality in modern Madrid
Fernando Vicente Albarrán and Cristina de Pedro Álvarez
31 Gatos, chulapos, chisperos, and the shaping of social identities in Madrid
Louie Dean Valencia
PART 4 Politics
32 Villa y Corte
José Eloy Hortal Muñoz
33 The Bourbon transition
Aitor Díaz Paredes
34 The city under Carlos III
Natalia González Heras
35 Politics in the nineteenth century (1808-1898)
Álvaro París
36 Politics in Madrid: from 1898 through the Second Republic
Santiago de Miguel Salanova
37 The many wars of Madrid (1936-1939): everyday life and everyday violence
Alejandro Perez-Olivares, Daniel Oviedo Silva and Ainhoa Campos Posada
38 Francos city, 1939-1975
Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez
39 Madrid and the Spanish transition: historiography and memory
Gonzalo Pasamar
40 Madrid and democracy: modernization, crisis, and citizen mobilization toward a more democratic city
Rosa de la Fuente
PART 5 Economy
41 The early modern economy
Mauro Hernández
42 Economic development from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries
Javier Hernando Ortego
43 The making of a business capital
Nuria Puig
Index