El Palacio Real De Madrid

Este libro surge de un encuentro científico en la Alhambra acerca de la conveniencia de organizar un "convegno" en torno al palacio de Carlos V y de forma más concreta sobre el pap...

This chapter describes how, toward the end of the nineteenth century, journalists and social scientists concerned about social degeneration and the moral effects of Madrid’s nightl...

This chapter analyzes the impact on the population of the expansion of nightlife in Madrid from the 1880s on. More particularly, it studies public fears raised by alcoholism and fl...

The notion that Spanish audiences and critics rejected Carmen as an exoticist abomination is interrogated in Chapter 3, which investigates the opera’s arrival in Madrid during the ...