(Ebook) Classics and Imperialism in the British Empire by Mark Bradley ISBN 9780199584727, 0199584729

(Ebook) Classics and Imperialism in the British Empire by Mark Bradley ISBN 9780199584727, 0199584729

While the study of Classics in postcolonial worlds has received a great deal of recent attention, this is the 1st comprehensive study of the relationship between classical ideas & British colonialism. In this collection of essays, classical scholars & modern historians demonstrate that ideas about the Greek & Roman world since the 18th century developed hand-in-hand with the rise & fall of the British Empire. Beginning with the history of the British Museum & its engagement both with classical antiquity & with the opportunities provided by the British Empire, the contributors address the role of classical scholarship in understanding British colonization, the development of theories about race in Europe & beyond, the exploitation of individual classical texts as imperial discourses, ideas about imperial decline & efforts to wrest ownership of the classical past from the dominating control of the British.