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As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome
great again and their victims, ideas of Roman decline and renewal
have had a long and violent history. The decline of Rome has been a
constant source of discussion for more than 2200 years. Everyone
from American journalists in the twenty-first century AD to Roman
politicians at the turn of the third century BC have used it as a
tool to illustrate the negative consequences of changes in their
world. Because Roman history is so long, it provides a buffet of
ready-made stories of decline that can help develop the context
around any snapshot. And Rome did, in fact, decline and,
eventually, fall. An empire that once controlled all or part of
more than 40 modern European, Asian, and African countries no
longer exists. Roman prophets of decline were, ultimately, proven
correct-a fact that makes their modern invocations all the more
powerful. If it happened then, it could happen now. The Eternal
Decline and Fall of Rome tells the stories of the people who built
their political and literary careers around promises of Roman
renewal as well as those of the victims they blamed for causing
Rome's decline. Each chapter offers the historical context
necessary to understand a moment or a series of moments in which
Romans, aspiring Romans, and non—Romans used ideas of Roman
decline and restoration to seize power and remake the world around
them. The story begins during the Roman Republic just after 200 BC.
It proceeds through the empire of Augustus and his successors,
traces the Roman loss of much of western Europe in the fifth
century AD, and then follows Roman history as it runs through the
Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium) until its fall in 1453. The final
two chapters look at ideas of Roman decline and renewal from the
fifteenth century until today. If Rome illustrates the profound
danger of the rhetoric of decline, it also demonstrates the
rehabilitative potential of a rhetoric that focuses on
collaborative restoration, a lesson of great relevance to our world
today.
After the Revolution, Americans realized they lacked the common,
deep, or meaningful history that might bind together their loose
confederation of former colonies into a genuine nation. They had
been conquerors yet colonials, now politically independent yet
culturally subordinate to European history and traditions. To
resolve these paradoxes, some early republic "historians" went so
far as to reconstruct pre-Columbian, transatlantic adventures by
white people that might be employed to assert their rights and
ennoble their identities as Americans.In Colonizing the Past,
Edward Watts labels this impulse "primordialism" and reveals its
consistent presence over the span of nineteenth-century American
print culture in writers ranging from Washington Irving to Mark
Twain. In dozens of texts, Watts tracks episodes in which varying
accounts of pre-Columbian whites attracted widespread attention:
the Welsh Indians, the Lost Tribes of Israel, the white Mound
Builders, and the Vikings, as well as two ancient Irish
interventions. In each instance, public interest was ignited when
representations of the group in question became enmeshed in
concurrent conversations about the nation's evolving identity and
policies. Yet at every turn, counternarratives and public
resistance challenged both the plausibility of the pre-Columbian
whites and the colonialist symbolism that had been evoked to create
a sense of American identity. By challenging the rhetoric of
primordialism and empire building, dissenting writers exposed the
crimes of conquest and white Americans' marginality as
ex-colonials.
An integrated collection of essays examining the politics, social
networks, law, historiography, and literature of the later Roman
world. The volume treats three central themes: the first section
looks at political and social developments across the period and
argues that, in spite of the stress placed upon traditional social
structures, many elements of Roman life remained only slightly
changed. The second section focuses upon biographical texts and
shows how late-antique authors adapted traditional modes of
discourse to new conditions. The final section explores the first
years of the reign of Theodosius I and shows how he built upon
historical foundations while unfurling new methods for utilising,
presenting, and commemorating imperial power. These papers analyse
specific events and local developments to highlight examples of
both change and continuity in the Roman world from 284-450.
After the Revolution, Americans realized they lacked the common,
deep, or meaningful history that might bind together their loose
confederation of former colonies into a genuine nation. They had
been conquerors yet colonials, now politically independent yet
culturally subordinate to European history and traditions. To
resolve these paradoxes, some early republic "historians" went so
far as to reconstruct pre-Columbian, transatlantic adventures by
white people that might be employed to assert their rights and
ennoble their identities as Americans.In Colonizing the Past,
Edward Watts labels this impulse "primordialism" and reveals its
consistent presence over the span of nineteenth-century American
print culture in writers ranging from Washington Irving to Mark
Twain. In dozens of texts, Watts tracks episodes in which varying
accounts of pre-Columbian whites attracted widespread attention:
the Welsh Indians, the Lost Tribes of Israel, the white Mound
Builders, and the Vikings, as well as two ancient Irish
interventions. In each instance, public interest was ignited when
representations of the group in question became enmeshed in
concurrent conversations about the nation's evolving identity and
policies. Yet at every turn, counternarratives and public
resistance challenged both the plausibility of the pre-Columbian
whites and the colonialist symbolism that had been evoked to create
a sense of American identity. By challenging the rhetoric of
primordialism and empire building, dissenting writers exposed the
crimes of conquest and white Americans' marginality as
ex-colonials.
Ship Registration Law and Practice is fully updated and now
entering its third edition. Part of Lloyd's Shipping Law Library,
it is the most authoritative guide to the theory and practice of
ship registration in the most popular jurisdictions. It contains
the reference material needed to submit a vessel for registration
at the leading ship registries world-wide, as well as extracts from
key international conventions in this area, a new statistical
analysis of the world merchant fleet and Port State control
rankings.
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