Table of Contents: “…--The jealous old man, by Cervantes.--The playboy of Seville, by Tirso de Molina.--The mayor of Zalamea, by Calderón.…”

Table of Contents: “…Morgan.--The star of Seville, by Lope de Vega, tr. by P.M. Hayden.--Life is a dream, by Calderon, tr. by D.F. …”

Table of Contents: “…Reconquest, holy war, and crusade -- From Barbastro to Almería, 1063-1157 -- From Almería to Las Navas de Tolosa, 1157-1212 -- From Las Navas de Tolosa to Córdoba, 1212-1236 -- From Córdoba to Seville, 1236-1248 -- Warfare in the crusading era -- Financing reconquest and crusade -- The liturgy of reconquest and crusade.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The washtub / anonymous -- The imaginary invalid / Molière -- The barber of Seville / Beaumarchais -- The piggy bank / Labiche & Delacour -- Boubouroche / Georges Courteline -- The police chief's an easygoing guy / Courtleline -- Ubu cocu / Alfred Jarry -- My wife's dead mother / Georges Feydeau -- "Hey, cut out he parading around stark naked!" …”

Table of Contents: “…List of maps -- Foreword / Harold Bloom -- Note on transliterations and non-English names -- Beginnings -- Brief History Of A First-Rate Place -- Palaces Of Memory -- Mosque and the palm tree: Cordoba, 786 -- Mother tongues: Cordoba, 855 -- Grand vizier, a grand city: Cordoba, 949 -- Gardens of memory: Madinat al-Zahra, South of Cordoba, 1009 -- Victorious In Exile: Battlefield at Argona, between Cordoba and Granada, 1041 -- love and its songs: Niebla, just west of Seville, on the road to Huelva, August 1064 -- Barbastro, in the foothills of the Pyrenees, on the road to Saragossa, August 1064 -- Church at the top of the hill: Toledo, 1085 -- Andalusian in London: Huesca, 1106 -- Sailing away, riding away: Alexandria, 1140 -- Abbot and the Quran: Cluny, 1142 -- Gifts -- Sicily, 1236 -- Cordoba, 1236 -- Granada, 1236 -- Banned in Paris: Paris,1277 -- Visions of other worlds: Avila, 1305 -- Foreign dignitaries at the courts of Castile: Seville, 1364, Toledo, 1364 -- In the Alhambra: Granada, 1492 -- Somewhere in La Mancha: 1605 -- Epilogue: Andalusian shards -- Postscript -- Other readings -- Thanks -- Index.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Roman Baetica in history -- Cities and landscapes in West Roman Baetica -- From Constantine the Great to the Arab Invasion -- The ecclesiastical organization of Baetica in late antiquity -- The Bishopric of Córdoba (Corduba) -- The Bishopric of Cabra (Egabrum) -- The Bishopric of Écija (Astigi) -- The Bishopric of Seville (Hispalis) -- The Bishopric of Italica -- The Bishopric of Niebla (Ilipla) -- The first Christian buildings of late antique Western Baetica episcopal complexes -- The City of God: the making of church power…”
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Table of Contents: “…Setting the stage : opera buffa and comedy of manners in an age of democratic revolution -- Rossini, Mozart, Paisiello, and the Barber of Seville -- Jane Austen, Goya, Rossini, and the post-Napoleonic age : La Cenerentola -- Rossini, Beethoven, and rescue opera : Fidelio and La gazza ladra -- Rossini, Ferretti, Matilde di Shabran, and the revolution of 1820-21 -- Stendhal and Rossini in Paris : Il viaggio a reims, Le comte Ory, and the July Revolution.…”
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Table of Contents: “…New world in the old : local society and Spanish emigration to the Indies -- Legal and illegal emigration from Seville, 1550-1650 -- "To parts beyond the seas" : free emigration to the Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century -- Recruitment of French emigrants to Canada, 1600-1760 -- Indentured servants bound for the French Antilles in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- Harnessing the lure of the "best poor man's country" : the dynamics of German-speaking immigration to British North America, 1683-1783…”

Table of Contents: “…--Grigg, J. The do-gooder from Seville Gaol.--Koestler, G. Twenty-five writing years.…”

Table of Contents: “…The ruthless conquest of a golden Aztec empire -- Tehe first challenges to the lords of the main -- Carrying the king's wealth to the coffers of Seville -- The mearchant who enflamed Spain's new world -- The fire and fury of El Dragon -- The heretics who humbled the might of Spain -- The rise of a bloodthirsty brotherhood -- A sea-roving devil named Henry Morgan -- The sacking of Cartagena : a last, bold stroke -- A new era of naval warfare on teh embattled main.…”

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