Classicising Crisis The Modern Age Of Revolutions And The Grecoroman Repertoire First Edition Barbara Goff Michael Simpson by Barbara Goff & Michael Simpson 9781351115506, 1351115502 instant download after payment.

Geopolitical shifts and economic shocks, from the Early Modern period to the
twenty-first century, are frequently represented in terms of classical antecedents.
In this book, an international team of contributors – working across the disciplines
of Classics, History, Politics, and English – addresses a range of revolutionary
transformations, in England, America, France, Haiti, Greece, Italy,
Russia, Germany, and a recently globalised world, all of which were accorded
the classical treatment.
The chapters investigate discrete cases of classicising crisis, while the Introduction
highlights patterns among them. The book asks: are classical equations
a prized ideal, when evidence warrants, or linkages forced by an implacable will
to power, or good faith attempts to make sense of events otherwise bafflingly
unfamiliar and dangerous? Finally, do the events thus classicised retain, even
increase, their power to disturb and energise, or are they ultimately contained?
Classicising Crisis: The Modern Age of Revolutions and the Greco-Roman Repertoire
is essential reading for students and scholars of classics, classical reception,
and political thought in Europe and the Americas.