{"product_id":"habsburg-madrid-jess-escobar-9780271091419","title":"Habsburg Madrid: Architecture and the Spanish Monarchy","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith its selection as the court of the Spanish Habsburgs, Madrid became the de facto capital of a global empire, a place from which momentous decisions were made whose implications were felt in all corners of a vast domain. By the seventeenth century, however, political theory produced in the Monarqu僘 Hisp疣ica dealt primarily with the concept of decline. In this book, Jes俍 Escobar argues that the buildings of Madrid tell a different story about the final years of the Habsburg dynasty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMadrid took on a grander public face over the course of the seventeenth century, creating a \"court space\" for residents and visitors alike. Drawing from the representation of the city's architecture in prints, books, and paintings, as well as re-created plans standing in for lost documents, Escobar demonstrates how, through shared forms and building materials, the architecture of Madrid embodied the monarchy and promoted its chief political ideals of justice and good government. \u003ci\u003eHabsburg Madrid\u003c\/i\u003e explores palaces, public plazas, a town hall, a courthouse, and a prison, narrating the lived experience of architecture in a city where a wide roster of protagonists, from architects and builders to royal patrons, court bureaucrats, and private citizens, helped shape a modern capital.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichly illustrated, highly original, and written by a leading scholar in the field, this volume disrupts the traditional narrative about seventeenth-century Spanish \u003ci\u003edecadencia\u003c\/i\u003e. It will be welcomed by specialists in Habsburg Spain and by historians of art, architecture, culture, economics, and politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jes俍 Escobar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 027109141X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271091419\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/12\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.40h x 9.20w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2023","brand":"Jes俍 Escobar","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44057712525567,"sku":"9780271091419","price":124.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b09bfb4e-e4c0-47d9-8b60-86815ffb719c.jpg?v=1685048502","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/habsburg-madrid-jess-escobar-9780271091419","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}