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Cover 1 David Jones and Rome: Reimagining the Decline of Western Civilisation 4 Copyright 5 Dedication 6 Acknowledgements 8 Contents 10 List of Figures 12 Introduction: ‘at the turn of time’ 14 PART I: DAVID JONES AND EMPIRE: Introduction to Part I: The Political Formation of the Roman Analogy 32 1: Shaping Rome through ‘Contactual’ Experience: War and Post-War Disillusionment 36 The Formative Experience of War 37 Roman Legionaries and British Tommies: Developing the Analogy of Soldiery 41 Roman and British Imperialism: The Impact of Disillusionment 51 Why Rome? Choosing an Analogy for Empire 58 2: British Imperial Rhetoric: Subverting the Roman Analogy of Empire 63 The Rise and Decline of Empires: The Development of Rome in British Politics 64 Jones’s Roman Vision of British Imperialism 70 Roman and British Imperialism: ‘Isis’ and the Victimisation of Egypt 75 3: Expanding the Roman Imperial Analogy: Fascism, Communism, and the Co-agencyof Empires 79 The Attraction of Hitler: Catholicism, Traditionalism, and the Distrust of British Imperialism 81 The Roman Empire in Fascist Rhetoric: Broadening the Imperial Analogy 93 Communism, Fascism, Capitalism: The Roman Empire as Cultural De

Author

Jasmine Hunter Evans;

Published

2021

Language

EN