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The Rome We Have Lost (Hardcover)
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The Rome We Have Lost (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R590
Discovery Miles 5 900
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For a thousand years, Rome was enshrined in myth and legend as the
Eternal City. No Grand Tour would be complete without a visit to
its ruins. But from 1870 all that changed. A millennium ended as
its solitary moonlit ruins became floodlit monuments on traffic
islands, and its perimeter shifted from the ancient
nineteen-kilometre wall with twelve gates to a fifty-kilometre ring
road with thirty-three roundabouts and spaghetti junctions. The
Rome We Have Lost is the first full investigation of this change.
John Pemble musters popes, emperors, writers, exiles, and tourists,
to weave a rich fabric of Roman experience. He tells the story of
how, why, and with what consequences that Rome, centre of Europe
and the world, became a national capital: no longer central and
unique, but marginal and very similar in its problems and its
solutions to other modern cities with a heavy burden of 'heritage'.
This far-reaching book illuminates the historical significance of
Rome's transformation and the crisis that Europe is now confronting
as it struggles to re-invent without its ancestral centre - the
city that had made Europe what it was, and defined what it meant to
be European.
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