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de AGUSTÍ BELART, DAVID
de AGUSTÍ BELART, DAVID
Barcelona is a city steeped in history and conflict. It has been agarrison city of the Roman Empire, the leading power of theMediterranean, the battleground of international wars, an industrialpower, and the largest holdout against fascism in the Spanish CivilWar. The Catalan capital has been bombed and besieged, and has raiseditself from the rubble time and time again. Its history is inseparable from the history of Catalonia itself, and the development of each has deeply impacted the other throughout the centuries.This book chronicles the social, political, cultural and urbandevelopment of a city that has played an important role in the history of Europe. From the footsteps of the first man on the Catalan coastit reveals Roman Barcelona, Islamic Barcelona, the citys historicdefeat in 1714, the age of steam, the hardships of the Civil War andthe subsequent transition to democracy after Francos dictatorship.Always a symbol of liberty and a mosaic of cultures, the city existsas it does today thanks to the tireless efforts of its citizens,throughout the centuries, to make it ever bigger and better.
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