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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