Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations and Tables viii
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter One. Spanish Science and the Reception of Relativity 17
7. Chapter Two. The Einstein Phenomenon 74
8. Chapter Three. Barcelona: Einstein and Catalan Nationalism 100
9. Chapter Four. Madrid: The Two Aristocracies 123
10. Chapter Five. The Debate over Relativity in the 1920s 150
11. Chapter Six. Relativity and Spanish Engineers: The Scientific Middle Class 188
12. Chapter Seven. The Slave at the Sermon: Einstein and the Spanish Intelligentsia 238
13. Chapter Eight. Flow and Transformation of Ideas 276
14. Chapter Nine. After Einstein's Visit 302
15. Appendixes 323
16. Bibliography 357
17. Index 377