Pemble John (Senior Research Fellow University Of Bristol)
Pemble John (Senior Research Fellow University Of Bristol) - The Rome We Have Lost - Hardcover
Pemble John (Senior Research Fellow University Of Bristol) - The Rome We Have Lost - Hardcover
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Description: For a thousand years Rome was enshrined in myth and legend as the Eternal City. No Grand Tour would be complete without a visit to its ruins. But from 1870 all that changed. A millennium ended as its solitary moonlit ruins became floodlit monuments on traffic islands and its perimeter shifted from the ancient nineteen - kilometre wall with twelve gates to a fifty - kilometre ring road with thirty - three roundabouts and spaghetti junctions. The Rome We Have Lost is the first full investigation of this change. John Pemble musters popes emperors writers exiles and tourists to weave a rich fabric of Roman experience. He tells the story of how why and with what consequences that Rome centre of Europe and the world became a national capital: no longer central and unique but marginal and very similar in its problems and its solutions to other modern cities with a heavy burden of 'heritage'. This far - reaching book illuminates the historical significance of Rome's transformation and the crisis that Europe is now confronting as it struggles to re - invent without its ancestral centre - - the city that had made Europe what it was and defined what it meant to be European.
Title: The Rome We Have Lost
Author(s): Pemble John (Senior Research Fellow University Of Bristol)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198803966
Pages: 202 Pages, 17 Black & White Illustrations
Publication Date: 1/2/2018
Category: History Of Ideas
Description: For a thousand years Rome was enshrined in myth and legend as the Eternal City. No Grand Tour would be complete without a visit to its ruins. But from 1870 all that changed. A millennium ended as its solitary moonlit ruins became floodlit monuments on traffic islands and its perimeter shifted from the ancient nineteen - kilometre wall with twelve gates to a fifty - kilometre ring road with thirty - three roundabouts and spaghetti junctions. The Rome We Have Lost is the first full investigation of this change. John Pemble musters popes emperors writers exiles and tourists to weave a rich fabric of Roman experience. He tells the story of how why and with what consequences that Rome centre of Europe and the world became a national capital: no longer central and unique but marginal and very similar in its problems and its solutions to other modern cities with a heavy burden of 'heritage'. This far - reaching book illuminates the historical significance of Rome's transformation and the crisis that Europe is now confronting as it struggles to re - invent without its ancestral centre - - the city that had made Europe what it was and defined what it meant to be European.
Title: The Rome We Have Lost
Author(s): Pemble John (Senior Research Fellow University Of Bristol)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198803966
Pages: 202 Pages, 17 Black & White Illustrations
Publication Date: 1/2/2018
Category: History Of Ideas
