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A comparative study of cities that fell into ruin through human involvement.We have been taught to think of ruins as historical artifacts, relegated to the past by a catastrophic event. Instead, Martin Devecka argues that we should see them as processes taking place over a long present. In Broken Cities, Devecka offers a wide-ranging comparative study of ruination, the process by which monuments, architectural sites, and urban centers decay into ruin over time. Weaving together four case studies—of classical Athens, late antique Rome, medieval Baghdad, and sixteenth-century Mexico City—Devecka shows that ruination is a complex social process largely contingent on changing imperial control rather than the result of immediate or natural events. Drawing on literature, legal texts, epigraphic evidence, and the narratives embodied in monuments and painting, Broken Cities is an expansive and nuanced study that holds great significance for the field of historiography.
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A comparative study of cities that fell into ruin through human involvement.We have been taught to think of ruins as historical artifacts, relegated to the past by a catastrophic event. Instead, Martin Devecka argues that we should see them as processes taking place over a long present. In Broken Cities, Devecka offers a wide-ranging comparative study of ruination, the process by which monuments, architectural sites, and urban centers decay into ruin over time. Weaving together four case studies—of classical Athens, late antique Rome, medieval Baghdad, and sixteenth-century Mexico City—Devecka shows that ruination is a complex social process largely contingent on changing imperial control rather than the result of immediate or natural events. Drawing on literature, legal texts, epigraphic evidence, and the narratives embodied in monuments and painting, Broken Cities is an expansive and nuanced study that holds great significance for the field of historiography.
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Animals, power, and belonging in the Roman Empire.Animals were everywhere in the Roman world: in labor, ritual, entertainment, warfare, and luxury. In Citizen Beast, Martin Devecka argues that they were not merely background figures but central participants in the formation of empire. He examines how animals came to belong to Rome and how their incorporation mirrored the processes that shaped human citizenship, subjection, and exclusion.Birds, mice, elephants, bears, pigs, donkeys, eels, and oysters serve as case studies for understanding how imperial power organized life itself. Through these examples, Citizen Beast reveals an empire that governed humans and animals together, treating both of them as economic resources and symbolic instruments. Roman writers often understood animals as intentional beings whose cooperation—or resistance—mattered. Devecka shows how these ideas helped structure legal practices, religious rituals, systems of punishment, and regimes of extraction. Animals helped enforce violence, stabilize hierarchy, and produce elite distinction, while also exposing the limits of imperial control.By treating the Roman Empire as a multispecies world, Citizen Beast reframes familiar histories of power, agency, and governance. The result is a striking account of how empire functioned by managing living beings—and why animals must be understood as historical actors in their own right.