Rome and America

Communities of Strangers, Spectacles of Belonging

AvDean Hammer

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Rome and America provides a timely exploration of the Roman and American founding myths in the cultural imagination. Defying the usual ideological categories, Dean Hammer argues for the exceptional nature of the myths as a journey of Strangers, but also traces the tensions created by the myths in attempts to answer the question of who We are. The wide-ranging chapters reassess both Roman antecedents and American expressions of the myth in some unexpected places: early American travelogues, westerns, bare-knuckle boxing, early American theater, government documents detailing Native American policy, and the writings of Noah Webster, W. E. B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and Charles Eastman. This innovative volume culminates in an interpretation of the current crisis of democracy as a reversion of the community back to Strangers, with suggestions of how the myth can recast a much-needed discussion of identity and belonging.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-04-17
Mått:152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:436 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:266
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009249614

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DEAN HAMMER is John W. Wetzel Professor of Classics and Professor of Government in the Department of Government at Franklin and Marshall College. He has written extensively on the ancient and modern ancient world. His books include Roman Political Thought: From Cicero to Augustine (Cambridge, 2014), Roman Political Thought and the Modern Theoretical Imagination (2008), The Iliad as Politics: The Performance of Political Thought (2002), The Puritan Tradition in Revolutionary, Federalist, and Whig Political Theory: A Rhetoric of Origins (1998), and, as editor, A Companion to Greek Democracy and the Roman Republic (2015).

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Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; 1. Memory, identity, and violence: founding in the Aeneid and The Outlaw Josey Wales; 2. Imagining purity: the corrosive Stranger and the construction of a genealogy; 3. The wild Stranger and the conquest of space; 4. Playing culture: combat spectacles and the acting body; 5. The experience of politics and the crises of two republics.