The description for this book, The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century, will be forthcoming.
Автор: Diana Rowell Название: Paris: The `New Rome` of Napoleon I ISBN: 1472525299 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472525291 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 6018.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Napoleon I employed a myriad of media through which to promote his propaganda and his universal hegemony. Classical Rome - home to the great Caesars - was central to his ambitious visions for the transformation of Paris into an imperial metropolis of unprecedented magnitude. Exploring the interrelationship between antiquity, the display of power and the reinvention of Paris, this volume evaluates how the Roman world and post-antique exploitations of Rome influenced Napoleonic Paris, and how Napoleon promoted his authority by appropriating Rome's triumphal architecture and its associated symbolism to relocate 'Rome' in his own times. The volume shows how consideration of Louis XIV's legacy is crucial to understanding the evolution of Napoleon's fascination with imperial Rome. It also charts Napoleon's manipulation of the populist rhetoric of Republican France (and Rome) as he moved from being a general fighting for the Revolutionary cause to become the 'absolute' ruler of a new empire.
Описание: 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.
Описание: There are few issues in American law and politics as intensely debated as gun rights and regulation. No book has offered an account of the Second Amendment as comprehensive, readable, and scholarly as this one. It will be of interest to anyone who cares about politics, law, and the constitution.
Описание: This comprehensive introduction is for law students, undergraduates, academics, and general readers interested in the US constitution`s most consequential amendment. The book carefully examines the amendment`s three key provisions in its first section and sheds light on how the modern Supreme Court might resurrect its original meaning.
Автор: Wurman Ilan Название: The Second Founding: An Introduction to the Fourteenth Amendment ISBN: 1108843158 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108843157 Издательство: Cambridge University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 13288.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This comprehensive introduction is for law students, undergraduates, academics, and general readers interested in the US constitution`s most consequential amendment. The book carefully examines the amendment`s three key provisions in its first section and sheds light on how the modern Supreme Court might resurrect its original meaning.
Автор: Rolli, Chiara (university Of Parma, Italy) Название: Trial of warren hastings ISBN: 1350190624 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350190627 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 5067.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The impeachment trial of Warren Hastings lasted from 1788 until 1795. Hastings was the first Governor-General of Bengal and his trial had a formative impact on the British Empire. Chiara Rolli shows that in an age when British education consisted mainly of classical studies, it was antique views of rhetoric and imperial governance that permeated the trial. Prosecutor Edmund Burke was figured as a modern-day Cicero fighting corruption in the colonies, while Hastings was Verres, the corrupt propraetor of Sicily in the first century BC.
In their prosecution, both Burke and Richard Brinsley Sheridan employed certain coups de th tre - such as fainting for emphasis - advised by Cicero and the later Roman rhetorician Quintilian, whose style of spectacular justice played particularly well amid the eighteenth-century vogue for sentimental drama. Burke's defence of natural rights and passion for extirpating vice in the colonies similarly reflected an admiration for Cicero, just as Hastings' preference to rule the conquered by means of their own traditions recalled models of Roman provincial administration. Using contemporary journalism, satire and other ephemera, the book reconstructs the public's equally profound grasp of these parallels. It illuminates new aspects of early British discourse around the Empire, and shows how deeply classical precedents influenced the cultural and political imaginations of eighteenth-century Britain.
Описание: Romans in Victorian literature are at once pagan persecutors, pious statesmen, pleasure-seeking decadents, and heroes of empire: this volume examines how these manifold and often contradictory representations are deployed in a range of ways in the works of authors from Thomas Macaulay to Rudyard Kipling to create useable models of masculinity.
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