[PDF] Wanderings In Roman Britain eBook

Author : Thomas Wright
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 17,64 MB
Release : 2017-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780282338770

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Excerpt from Wanderings of an Antiquary: Chiefly Upon the Traces of the Romans in BritainI will only add that these sketches have been written at leisure moments during the last two years, and that, in one or two instances, circumstances con nected with particular localities described in them have undergone some change during that period.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Sarah J. Butler
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 34,26 MB
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1441116087

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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.