The Military and Colonial Destruction of the Roman Landscape of North Africa, 1830-1900

The French pursued victory and colonisation amid a Roman landscape little affected down the centuries by local inhabitants. In the space of two generations they destroyed much of it, re-using its materials to create security and a modern prosperity.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Michael Greenhalgh, M.A., Ph.D. (1967) is currently Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University and was from 1987 the Sir William Dobell Foundation Professor of Art History. Author of many books and papers on the survival and re-use of the antique around the Mediterranean, including Marble Past, Monumental Present (2009), and From the Romans to the Railways: The Fate of Antiquities in Asia Minor (2013).

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Michael Greenhalgh
• Verlag: de Gruyter Brill
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 15.05.2014
• EAN: 9789004248403
• ISBN: 978-90-04-24840-3
• Seiten: 482
• Abmessung: 159 mm x 256 mm x 2 mm
• Gewicht: 876 g
• Serie: History of Warfare
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Vor- und Frühgeschichte