Frederick Whitling

Western Ways

Foreign Schools in Rome and Athens

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Western Ways, for the first time, the "foreign schools" in Rome and Athens, institutions dealing primarily with classical archaeology and art history, are discussed in historical terms as vehicles and figureheads of national scholarship. By emphasising the agency and role of individuals in relation to structures and tradition, the book shows how much may be gained by examining science and politics as two sides of the same coin. It sheds light on the scholarly organisation of foreign schools, and through them, on the organisation of classical archaeology and classical studies around the Mediterranean. With its breadth and depth of archival resources, Western Ways offers new perspectives on funding, national prestige and international collaboration in the world of scholarship, and places the foreign schools in a framework of nineteenth and twentieth century Italian and Greek history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: De Gruyter
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 624g
• ISBN-13: 9783110601589
• ISBN-10: 3110601583
• Artikelnr.: 52509313

Autorenporträt

Frederick Whitling

Rezensionen

"Its main strength is that for the first time we have a synthetic and comparative work that examines the "foreign schools" at Athens and Rome in their respective socio-political conditions, stressing their similarities and differences, and employing considerable archival research."
Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan in: BMCR 2020.01.51