Articulating Resistance under the Roman Empire, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Blurb

"The Changing Scope of Resistance Studies During the twentieth century - whose concerns were framed by colonialist and postcolonial political contexts worldwide, as well as by the geopolitics and propaganda of the Cold War, in the aftermath of the struggles against totalitarian dictatorships across Europe in the 1940s and elsewhere in the post-War period - 'resistance' was seen, by the scholars who constitute Classical studies, in terms inflected by these experiences. One thinks of the literature of the Jewish revolt, of Druids against the invading Romans, of African and Iberian cultural resistance to what used to be called Romanisation"--