Death and Money in The Afternoon: A History of the Spanish Bullfight

281 Pages·1999·1.91 MB·English

by  Adrian Shubert

Death and Money
in the Afternoon:
A History of the
Spanish Bullfight
Adrian Shubert
Oxford University Press
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Death and Money in the Afternoon
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Adrian Shubert
Death and
D e at h a n d
Money
M on e y i n
in the
t h e A f t e r n o on
Afternoon
A History
fi
of the Spanish Bull ght
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Shubert,Adrian,1953–
Death and money in the afternoon :a history of the Spanish bullfight /
Adrian Shubert
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0–19–509524–3
1. Bullfights—Social aspects—Spain—History—18th century.
2. Bullfights—Social aspects—Spain—History—19th century.
I. Title.
GV1108.5.S58 1999
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Printed in the United States of America
on acid-free paper.
To Bill Callahan,
for getting me started
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Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Business 17
2. Bullfighters 53
3. Gender 91 s
t
4. Crowds 115
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5. Regulation 147 e
t
6. Politics 181
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Epilogue:The Death of Manolete 215 o
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Appendix A 219
Appendix B 222
Notes 225
Selected References 255
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Index 261
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Research and writing require money and time.A three-
year research grant from the Social Science and Human-
ities Research Council of Canada and two smaller grants
from York University permitted me to carry out the
research for this book. A fellowship from the John
s
Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation allowed me
the luxury of spending the 1997–1998 academic year
t
writing it.
I benefited from the work of three excellent research
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assistants: Milena Kras in Toronto,Teresa Arboledas
Márquez in Granada,and Gregorio “Goyo”de la Fuente
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in Madrid.I am also indebted to the staffs of a number
of archives and libraries: in Madrid, the Biblioteca
m
Nacional, the Hemeroteca Municipal, the Archivo
Municipal de la Villa,the Archivo Histórico Nacional,
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the Archivo Histórico de Protocolos,and the Archivo
del Palacio Real; in Granada the Archivo de la Can-
d
cillería Real;in Sevilla the Real Maestranza,and espe-
cially its Hermano Mayor, who granted access to its
superb archive; and Manuel Ravina Martín at the e
Archivo Histórico Provincial in Cádiz.I want to make
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special mention of Berta Bravo and her exceptionally
efficient and attentive staff at the Centro de Archivos de
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la Comunidad de Madrid.
Many colleagues in the field of Spanish history pro-
vided me with references to sources on bullfighting;so, o
too,did colleagues in French,British,United States,
Canadian, and Chinese history.Their contributions n
made this book richer, and I thank them all. José
Alvarez Junco,Renato Barahona,William J.Callahan, k
Jesús Cruz, Chris Cunningham, Judy Hellman,
Richard Hoffmann,Virginia Hunter,Richard Kagan, c
Kathryn McPherson, Enrique Moradiellos, Viv
Nelles,Adele Perry,Pamela Radcliff,David Ringrose, a
and Nick Rogers all read and commented on parts of
this book at various stages in its evolution. Finally,
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Antonio Cazorla Sánchez read the entire manuscript
and was a constant source of helpful criticism and
important ideas.