Rome from the ground up
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Rome is not one city but many, each with its own history unfolding from a different center: now the trading port on the Tiber; now the Forum of antiquity; the Palatine of imperial power; the Lateran Church of Christian ascendancy; the Vatican; the Quirinal palace. Beginning with the very shaping of the ground on which Rome first rose, this book conjures all these cities,(...)
octobre 2005, Cambridge
Rome from the ground up
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Rome is not one city but many, each with its own history unfolding from a different center: now the trading port on the Tiber; now the Forum of antiquity; the Palatine of imperial power; the Lateran Church of Christian ascendancy; the Vatican; the Quirinal palace. Beginning with the very shaping of the ground on which Rome first rose, this book conjures all these cities, past and present, conducting the reader through time and space to the complex and shifting realities - architectural, historical, political, and social - that constitute Rome.
Rome from the ground up
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James H.S. McGregor traces the successive urban forms that rulers have imposed, from emperors and popes to national governments including Mussolini's. In archaeologists' and museums' presentation of Rome's past, he shows that the documenting of history itself is fraught with power and politics. In McGregor's own account, the power and politics emerge clearly, manifest in(...)
Histoire jusqu’à 1900
octobre 2006, Cambridge, Mass.
Rome from the ground up
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James H.S. McGregor traces the successive urban forms that rulers have imposed, from emperors and popes to national governments including Mussolini's. In archaeologists' and museums' presentation of Rome's past, he shows that the documenting of history itself is fraught with power and politics. In McGregor's own account, the power and politics emerge clearly, manifest in the distinctive styles and structures, practical concerns and aesthetic interests that constitute the myriad Romes of our day and days past.
Histoire jusqu’à 1900