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Classics and Imperialism in the British Empire
Edited by Mark Bradley
360 pages
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27 in-text illustrations
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216x138mm
978-0-19-958472-7
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Hardback
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07 October 2010
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- The first systematic study of the relationship between British colonialism and classical discourses
- Has strong interdisciplinary appeal: written by both classicists and modern historians
- Chapters are linked by overarching themes: cultural ownership, 'hegemony' and European exceptionalism, the imperial cornucopia, the prevalence of elite metropolitan voices
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.Readership: Scholars and students of classics; of history, especially modern British history and the history of the British Empire.
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Edited by Mark Bradley, Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Nottingham Contributors:
Mark Bradley, University of Nottingham
Debbie Challis, University College London
David Fearn, University of Warwick
Stephen Harrison, University of Oxford
Richard Hingley, Durham University
Abhishek Kaicker, Columbia University
Margaret Malamud, New Mexico State University
Rama Mantena, University of Illinois at Chicago
Emma Reisz, Queen's University Belfast
Adam Rogers, University of Leicester
Phiroze Vasunia, University of Reading
Kostas Vlassopoulos, University of Nottingham
Margaret Williamson, Dartmouth College
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Mark Bradley: 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 & 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
Phiroze Vasunia: Envoi
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