Roman Officers and English Gentlemen

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. List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Imperial discourse: Britain and Rome; PART I: Imperialism; 2 Republicanism to imperialism: the growth of imperial discourse; 3 Decline and fall: a political analogy and provider of lessons; 4 Drawing lessons from Rome regarding incorporation and assimilation; PART II: Englishness; 5 Teutons, Romans and Celts; 6 Ancient heroes of the resistance; 7 The rise of a theory of mixed racial origins; 8 Englishness between the Wars, racial mixing and the role of Rome; PART III: Romanisation; 9 Francis Haverfield and Romanisation; 10 Romanisation: Haverfield's legacy; 11 Conclusions: 'Island stories'; Notes; Bibliography; Index;