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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 (Hardcover, New)
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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 (Hardcover, New)
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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 historical focus on Republican Rome was gradually
displaced by interest in the Imperial period of the Roman emperors.
Moreover, as the spectre of the British Empire and Nation in
decline increased towards the turn of the nineteenth century, the
reception of Imperial Rome itself was transformed. By the 1920s,
following the end of World War I, Imperial Rome was conjured into a
new framework echoing that of the British Empire and appealing to
the surging nationalistic mood.
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