Roman Officers and English Gentlemen: The Imperial Origins of Roman Archaeology

Richard Hingley9780415235792, 0415235790, 0415235804, 9780415235808, 9780203171417

This landmark book shows how much Victorian and Edwardian Roman archaeologists were influenced by their own experience of empire in their interpretation of archaeological evidence. This distortion of the facts became accepted truth and its legacy is still felt in archaeology today. While tracing the development of these ideas, the author also gives the reader a throrough grounding in the history of Roman archaeology itself.

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Table of contents :
Preliminaries……Page 1
CONTENTS……Page 8
List of illustrations……Page 10
Preface……Page 12
Acknowledgements……Page 16
1 Imperial discourse: Britain and Rome……Page 18
2 Republicanism to imperialism……Page 36
3 Decline and fall……Page 45
4 Drawing lessons from Rome regarding incorporation and Assimilation……Page 55
5 Teutons, Romans and Celts……Page 80
6 Ancient heroes of the resistance……Page 89
7 The rise of a theory of mixed racial origins……Page 103
8 Englishness between the Wars, racial mixing and the role of rome……Page 113
9 Francis Haverfield and Romanisation……Page 128
10 Romanisation: Haverfield’s legacy……Page 147
11 Conclusions: Island stories’……Page 173
Notes……Page 183
Bibliography……Page 216
Index……Page 237