China from the Ruins of Athens and Rome: Classics, Sinology, and Romanticism, 1793-1938 9780191079740, 9780198767015, 019107974X

China from the Ruins of Athens and Rome: Classics, Sinology, and Romanticism, 1793-1938 2020941927, 9780198767015

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China from the Ruins of Athens and Rome: Classics, Sinology, and Romanticism, 1793-1938 (Classical Presences) 9780198767015, 0198767013

Fascinated and often baffled by China, Anglophone writers turned to classics for answers. In poetry, essays, and travel

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Christo-Fiction: The Ruins of Athens and Jerusalem 9780231538961

François Laruelle's lifelong project of "nonphilosophy" thinks past the theoretical limits of Western phi

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Roads and Ruins: The Symbolic Landscape of Fascist Rome 9781442697379

Drawing on a wide variety of sources, including war diaries, memoirs, paintings, films, and government archives, Roads a

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Stories from the History of Rome (Serapis Classics) 9783962559670

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The Conquest of Ruins: The Third Reich and the Fall of Rome 9780226588223

The Roman Empire has been a source of inspiration and a model for imitation for Western empires practically since the mo

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Maarten van Heemskerck's Rome: Antiquity, Memory, and the Cult of Ruins 9004380469, 9789004380462, 9789004380820

This book presents the first sustained study of the stunning drawings of Roman ruins by Haarlem artist Maarten van Heems

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Roads and Ruins : The Symbolic Landscape of Fascist Rome [1 ed.] 9781442697379, 9780802099952

Drawing on a wide variety of sources, including war diaries, memoirs, paintings, films, and government archives, Roads a

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Illiterate Geography in Classical Athens and Rome 9780367439705, 9781003014737

This study is devoted to the channels through which geographic knowledge circulated in classical societies outside of te

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Athens, Rome, and England: America's Constitutional Heritage 1497675138, 9781497675131

Uncovering the roots of the U.S. Constitution The U.S. Constitution influences nearly every aspect of our lives. But f

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