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Rome From the Ground up [Audiobook] download free by James H. S. Mcgregor

Rome From the Ground up Audiobook download free by James H. S. Mcgregor
  • Listen audiobook: Rome From the Ground up
  • Author: James H. S. Mcgregor
  • Release date: 2006/7/6
  • Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
  • ISBN: 9780674022638
  • Rating: 9.33 of 10
  • Votes: 510
  • Review by: Luca Call
  • Review rating: 9.16 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/11/11
  • Duration: 4H35M43S in 256 kbps (73.6 MB)
  • Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-06
  • You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, WMA, Musepack, WAV, MPEG4, MP3 (compression CAB, ALZ, ZIP, RAR, LZ, CBZ)
  • Total pages original book: 368
  • Includes a PDF summary of 29 pages
  • Duration of the summary (audio): 22M (5.8 MB)
  • Description or summary of the audiobook: Rome is not one city but many, each with its own history unfolding from a different center: now the trading port on the Tiber; now the Forum of antiquity; the Palatine of imperial power; the Lateran Church of Christian ascendancy; the Vatican; the Quirinal palace. Beginning with the very shaping of the ground on which Rome first rose, this book conjures all these cities, past and present, conducting the reader through time and space to the complex and shifting realities-architectural, historical, political, and social-that constitute Rome.A multifaceted historical portrait, this richly illustrated work is as gritty as it is gorgeous, immersing readers in the practical world of each period. James McGregor's explorations afford the pleasures of a novel thick with characters and plot twists: amid the life struggles, hopes, and failures of countless generations, we see how things truly worked, then and now; we learn about the materials of which Rome was built; of the Tiber and its bridges; of roads, aqueducts, and sewers; and, always, of power, especially the power to shape the city and imprint it with a particular personality-like that of Nero or Trajan or Pope Sixtus V-or a particular institution.McGregor traces the successive urban forms that rulers have imposed, from emperors and popes to national governments including Mussolini's. And, in archaeologists' and museums' presentation of Rome's past, he shows that the documenting of history itself is fraught with power and politics. In McGregor's own beautifully written account, the power and politics emerge clearly, manifest in the distinctive styles and structures, practical concerns and aesthetic interests that constitute the myriad Romes of our day and days past.
  • Other categories, genre or collection: European History, History Of Architecture, Classical History / Classical Civilisation, Guidebooks, Local History
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  • Format: Paperback
  • Approximate value: 44.20 USD
  • Dimensions: 146x229x27.94mm
  • Weight: 929.86g
  • Printed by: The Belknap Press
  • Published in: Cambridge, Mass., United States

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