Barcelona

by Gary W. McDonogh

Book Overview

Barcelona has existed as a settlement for two millennia. Early civilizations shaped the city before it achieved, in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, global power as a trading metropolis and empire capital. After a long struggle with the unifying Spanish state, the city revived, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as an industrial and commercial powerhouse. It became a center of culture, ornamented by modern planning and wondrous works by Gaud...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745670709
• ISBN13: 9780745670706
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.5" x 6.8"