The Rome We Have Lost Hardback
by John (Senior Research Fellow, University of Bristol) Pemble
Hardback
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:202 pages, 17 black & white illustrations
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:23/11/2017
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- ISBN:9780198803966
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:202 pages, 17 black & white illustrations
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:23/11/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9780198803966