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Britain and its empire in the shadow of Rome : the reception of Rome in socio-political debate from the 1850s to the 1920s /
Drawing on new primary source evidence, this volume evaluates ancient Rome?s influence on an English intellectual tradition from the 1850s to the 1920s as politicians, scientists, economists and social reformers addressed three fundamental debates of the period - Empire, Nation, and City. These deba...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury,
2012.
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| Colección: | Cultural memory and history in antiquity.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Drawing on new primary source evidence, this volume evaluates ancient Rome?s influence on an English intellectual tradition from the 1850s to the 1920s as politicians, scientists, economists and social reformers addressed three fundamental debates of the period - Empire, Nation, and City. These debates emerged as a result of political, economic and social change both in the Empire and Britain, and coalesced around issues of degeneracy, morality, and community. As ideas of political freedom were subsumed by ideas of civilization, best preserved by technocratic governance, the political and hist. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 263 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-249) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1441177787 9781441177780 1441116087 9781441116086 1283706156 9781283706155 9781472540621 147254062X |