Charlie Kerrigan is a Research Fellow in Classics at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

A very useful discussion of the socio-political and economic importance to the metropole of the myriad places and peoples of (or potentially of) the Roman empire referenced by the Georgics, and a good compendium of more modern references to the Georgics in the context of British imperialism during the years 1840 to 1930.

• Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Part One: Rome and the Roman empire, 29 BCE1. The World and its Peoples 2. Provincializing Rome 3. Civil War 4. ‘All Italy’ Part Two: Britain and the British empire, c. 1840–19305. An Aesthetic Trend 6. The Georgics Abroad 7. ‘Happy Farmers’ 8. The Georgics At Home Conclusion: Towards a Decolonizing Pedagogy of Latin Literature Appendix: The Geography of the Georgics Notes References Index of passages from the GeorgicsIndex

Charlie Kerrigan is a Research Fellow in Classics at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

A very useful discussion of the socio-political and economic importance to the metropole of the myriad places and peoples of (or potentially of) the Roman empire referenced by the Georgics, and a good compendium of more modern references to the Georgics in the context of British imperialism during the years 1840 to 1930.

• Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Part One: Rome and the Roman empire, 29 BCE1. The World and its Peoples 2. Provincializing Rome 3. Civil War 4. ‘All Italy’ Part Two: Britain and the British empire, c. 1840–19305. An Aesthetic Trend 6. The Georgics Abroad 7. ‘Happy Farmers’ 8. The Georgics At Home Conclusion: Towards a Decolonizing Pedagogy of Latin Literature Appendix: The Geography of the Georgics Notes References Index of passages from the GeorgicsIndex

Charlie Kerrigan is a Research Fellow in Classics at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

A very useful discussion of the socio-political and economic importance to the metropole of the myriad places and peoples of (or potentially of) the Roman empire referenced by the Georgics, and a good compendium of more modern references to the Georgics in the context of British imperialism during the years 1840 to 1930.

• Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Part One: Rome and the Roman empire, 29 BCE1. The World and its Peoples 2. Provincializing Rome 3. Civil War 4. ‘All Italy’ Part Two: Britain and the British empire, c. 1840–19305. An Aesthetic Trend 6. The Georgics Abroad 7. ‘Happy Farmers’ 8. The Georgics At Home Conclusion: Towards a Decolonizing Pedagogy of Latin Literature Appendix: The Geography of the Georgics Notes References Index of passages from the GeorgicsIndex