Screen LibraryThe conquest of ruins : the Third Reich and the fall of Rome /
The Roman Empire has been a source of inspiration and a model for imitation for Western empires practically since the moment Rome fell. Yet, as Julia Hell shows in The Conquest of Ruins, what has had the strongest grip on aspiring imperial imaginations isn't that empire's glory but its fal...
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The University of Chicago Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Chicago, IL : |
| Publication Dates: | 2019. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
The Roman Empire has been a source of inspiration and a model for imitation for Western empires practically since the moment Rome fell. Yet, as Julia Hell shows in The Conquest of Ruins, what has had the strongest grip on aspiring imperial imaginations isn't that empire's glory but its fall--and the haunting monuments left in its wake. Hell examines centuries of European empire-building--from Charles V in the sixteenth century and Napoleon's campaigns of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries to the atrocities of Mussolini and the Third Reich in the 1930s and '40s--and sees a si |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 618 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-579) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780226588193 022658819X 9780226588056 022658805X |
| Index Number: | DD256 |
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K516.44 K516.03 K885.16-05 |
| Call Number: | K885.16-05/H476 |
| Contents: | Introduction. Neo-Roman mimesis and the law of ruin -- After Carthage: the Roman empire and its ruins -- Neo-Roman mimesis: Charles V at Tunis, 1535 -- Neo-Roman mimesis in the modern age: Cook's second voyage to the South Pacific and the French conquest of Egypt and Algeria -- From Germany's anti-Napoleonic barbarians to the ruin gazer scenarios of the conservative revolution -- With the end in mind: the Nazi empire's Neo-Roman mimesis and the ruined stage of Rome -- Romans or Greeks?: Carl Schmitt and Martin Heidegger -- Epilogue: Anselm Kiefer's Zersetzungen/disarticulations. |