1st Edition
Roman Officers and English Gentlemen The Imperial Origins of Roman Archaeology
By Richard Hingley
Copyright 2001
240 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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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. This distortion of the facts became accepted truth and its legacy is still felt in archaeology today. While tracing the development of these ideas, the author also gives the reader a throrough grounding in the history... Read more
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;
Biography
Hingley, Richard
'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
