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19-03-2019
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The University of Chicago Press
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Julia Hell
The Conquest of Ruins
The Third Reich and the Fall of Rome
Julia Hell
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€11,99
The
Roman
Empire
has
been
a
source
of
inspiration
and
a
model
for
imitation
for
Western
empires
practically
since
the
moment
Rome
fell.
Yet,
as
Julia
Hell
shows
in
The
Conquest
of
Ruins,
what
has
had
the
strongest
grip
on
aspiring
imperial
imaginations
isn’t
that
empire’s
glory
but
its
fall—and
the
haunting
monuments
left
in
its
wake.Hell
examines
centuries
of
European
empire-building—from
Charles
V
in
the
sixteenth
century
and
Napoleon’s
campaigns
of
the
late
seventeenth
and
early
eighteenth
centuries
to
the
atrocities
of
Mussolini
and
the
Third
Reich
in
the
1930s
and
’40s—and
sees
a
similar
fascination
with
recreating
the
Roman
past
in
the
contemporary
image.
In
every
case—particularly
that
of
the
Nazi
regime—the
ruins
of
Rome
seem
to
represent
a
mystery
to
be
solved:
how
could
an
empire
so
powerful
be
brought
so
low?
Hell
argues
that
this
fascination
with
the
ruins
of
greatness
expresses
a
need
on
the
part
of
would-be
conquerors
to
find
something
to
ward
off
a
similar
demise
for
their
particular empire.
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