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9780226588223
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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
Inhalt:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Neo-Roman Mimesis and the Law of Ruin -- PART ONE. After Carthage: The Roman Empire and Its Ruins -- PART TWO. Neo-Roman Mimesis: Charles V at Tunis, 1535 -- PART THREE. Neo-Roman Mimesis in the Modern Age: Cook’s Second Voyage to the South Pacific and the French Conquest of Egypt and Algeria -- PAR T FOUR. From Germany’s Anti- Napoleonic Barbarians to the Ruin Gazer Scenarios of the Conservative Revolution -- PART FIVE. With the End in Mind: The Nazi Empire’s Neo- Roman Mimesis and the Ruined Stage of Rome -- PART SIX. Romans or Greeks? Carl Schmitt and Martin Heidegger -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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ISBN 978022658805 6
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ISBN 9780226588193
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hell, Julia, 1957 - The conquest of ruins Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019 ISBN 9780226588056
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ISBN 9780226588193
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ISBN 022658805X
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ISBN 022658819X
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ISBN 9780226588223
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ISBN 022658822X
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Geschichte
Schlagwort(e):
Römisches Reich
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Bodendenkmal
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Nachahmung
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Imperialismus
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Drittes Reich
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Geschichte
DOI:
10.7208/9780226588223
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