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The Roman Empire has been a source of inspiration and a model for imitation for Western empires practically since the moment Rome fell. Yet, as Julia Hell shows in The Conquest of Ruins, what has had the strongest grip on aspiring imperial imaginations isn’t that empire’s glory but its fall—and the haunting monuments left in its wake. Hell examines centuries of European empire-building—from Charles V in the sixteenth century and Napoleon’s campaigns of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries to the atrocities of Mussolini and the Third Reich in the 1930s and ’40s—and sees a similar fascination with recreating the Roman past in the contemporary image. In every case—particularly that of the Nazi regime—the ruins of Rome seem to represent a mystery to be solved: how could an empire so powerful be brought so low? Hell argues that this fascination with the ruins of greatness expresses a need on the part of would-be conquerors to find something to ward off a similar demise for their particular empire.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Julia Hell |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Release |
: 2019-03-19 |
File |
: 633 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780226588223 |
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BOOK EXCERPT:
The Roman Empire has been a source of inspiration and a model for imitation for Western empires practically since the moment Rome fell. Yet, as Julia Hell shows in The Conquest of Ruins, what has had the strongest grip on aspiring imperial imaginations isn’t that empire’s glory but its fall—and the haunting monuments left in its wake. Hell examines centuries of European empire-building—from Charles V in the sixteenth century and Napoleon’s campaigns of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries to the atrocities of Mussolini and the Third Reich in the 1930s and ’40s—and sees a similar fascination with recreating the Roman past in the contemporary image. In every case—particularly that of the Nazi regime—the ruins of Rome seem to represent a mystery to be solved: how could an empire so powerful be brought so low? Hell argues that this fascination with the ruins of greatness expresses a need on the part of would-be conquerors to find something to ward off a similar demise for their particular empire.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Julia Hell |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Release |
: 2019-03-19 |
File |
: 633 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780226588193 |
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The Conquest of Assyria tells what must surely be one of the most romantic tales of archaeological endeavour. The great cities and ancient palaces of Mesopotamia had lain buried for over two millenia, and were all but forgotten, half remembered in the Hebrew Bible and Classical texts. This volume records the dramatic finds, the decipherment of the cuneiform system of writing and the rediscovery of a lost civilisation.
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Genre |
: Social Science |
Author |
: Mogens Trolle Larsen |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Release |
: 2014-06-03 |
File |
: 408 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781317949954 |
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Robert Anderson Wilson |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1859 |
File |
: 562 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: HARVARD:32044042778142 |
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Genre |
: Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
Author |
: Thomas Spencer Baynes |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1891 |
File |
: 898 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: NYPL:33433082033253 |
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: |
Author |
: Robert Anderson Wilson |
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: |
Release |
: 1861 |
File |
: 564 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: BL:A0019558811 |
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: Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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: |
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: |
Release |
: 1898 |
File |
: 932 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: CORNELL:31924092498827 |
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Genre |
: Mexico |
Author |
: William Hickling Prescott |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1873 |
File |
: 555 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOMDLP:ajl4366:0006.001 |
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: |
Author |
: Robert Montgomery Bird |
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: |
Release |
: 1856 |
File |
: 240 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: BSB:BSB10744691 |
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Genre |
: Mexico |
Author |
: William Hickling Prescott |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1844 |
File |
: 370 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: BDM:13020100028442 |