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Roman Officers and English Gentlemen Richard Hingley

Roman Officers and English Gentlemen By Richard Hingley

Roman Officers and English Gentlemen by Richard Hingley


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Summary

This landmark book shows how much Victorian and Edwardian Roman archaeologists were influenced by their own experience of empire in their interpretation of archaeological evidence.

Roman Officers and English Gentlemen Summary

Roman Officers and English Gentlemen: The Imperial Origins of Roman Archaeology by Richard Hingley

Interdisciplinary appeal across a wide range of courses and subjects - Roman archaeology, colonial discourse theory, imperialism, Victorian studies

Work on national origins and identity are popular at the moment and this book addresses these topics in a new way

The book thoroughly examines the process of how native people become Roman (Romanisation) a fundamental topic for everyone studying Roman archaeology

Groundbreaking - redefines the basis of academic thought in both ancient and modern imperialism

Roman Officers and English Gentlemen Reviews

'A major contribution to a number of different academic fields Theoretically astute, yet engagingly written, it has a wide potential readership.' - Dominic Montserrat, JACT Review

'Hingley's book is without doubt necessary and admirable.' - David Boyd Haycock, TLS

About Richard Hingley

Hingley, Richard

Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Imperial discourse: Britain and Rome; PART I: Imperialism; 2 Republicanism to imperialism: the growth of imperial discourse; 3 Decline and fall: a political analogy and provider of lessons; 4 Drawing lessons from Rome regarding incorporation and assimilation; PART II: Englishness; 5 Teutons, Romans and Celts; 6 Ancient heroes of the resistance; 7 The rise of a theory of mixed racial origins; 8 Englishness between the Wars, racial mixing and the role of Rome; PART III: Romanisation; 9 Francis Haverfield and Romanisation; 10 Romanisation: Haverfield's legacy; 11 Conclusions: 'Island stories'; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Additional information

NLS9780415235808
9780415235808
0415235804
Roman Officers and English Gentlemen: The Imperial Origins of Roman Archaeology by Richard Hingley
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2000-08-03
240
N/A
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