Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 584 g
Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 584 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-958472-7
Verlag: ACADEMIC
While the study of Classics in postcolonial worlds has received a great deal of recent attention, this is the first comprehensive study of the relationship between classical ideas and British colonialism. In this collection of essays, classical scholars and modern historians demonstrate that ideas about the Greek and Roman world since the eighteenth century developed hand-in-hand with the rise and fall of the British Empire. Beginning with the history of the British Museum and its engagement both with classical antiquity and with the opportunities provided by the British Empire, the contributors address the role of classical scholarship in understanding British colonization, the development of theories about race in Europe and beyond, the exploitation of individual classical texts as imperial discourses, ideas about imperial decline, and efforts to wrest ownership of the classical past from the dominating control of the British.
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Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
Weitere Infos & Material
- Introduction
- I. Classical Scholarship and Imperial Hegemonies
- 1: Kostas Vlassopoulos: Imperial encounters: discourses on empire and the uses of ancient history during the eighteenth century
- 2: Rama Mantena: Imperial ideology and the uses of Rome in discourses on Britain's Indian Empire
- II. Classics and the Superior Race
- 3: Margaret Williamson: 'The mirror-shield of knowledge': classicizing the West Indies
- 4: Debbie Challis: 'The ablest race': the ancient Greeks in Victorian racial theory
- III. Empire and the Classical Text
- 5: Mark Bradley: Tacitus' Agricola and the conquest of Britain: representations of Empire in Victorian and Edwardian England
- 6: David Fearn: Imperialist fragmentation and the discovery of Bacchylides
- IV. Decline and Danger
- 7: Adam Rogers and Richard Hingley: Edward Gibbon and Francis Haverfield: the traditions of imperial decline
- 8: Emma Reisz: Classics, race, and Edwardian anxieties about empire
- V. Relocating the Classical
- 9: Abhishek Kaicker: Visions of modernity in revisions of the past: Altaf Hussain Hali and the 'Legacy of the Greeks'
- 10: Margaret Malamud: Translatio Imperii: America as the New Rome c.1900
- Envoi
