{"product_id":"rome-we-have-lost-john-pemble-9780198803966","title":"Rome We Have Lost","description":"For a thousand years, Rome was enshrined in myth and legend as the Eternal City. No Grand Tour would be complete without a visit to its ruins. But from 1870 all that changed. A millennium ended as its solitary moonlit ruins became floodlit monuments on traffic islands, and its perimeter shifted from the ancient nineteen-kilometre wall with twelve gates to a fifty-kilometre ring road with thirty-three roundabouts and spaghetti junctions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Rome We Have Lost\u003c\/em\u003e is the first full investigation of this change. John Pemble musters popes, emperors, writers, exiles, and tourists, to weave a rich fabric of Roman experience. He tells the story of how, why, and with what consequences that Rome, centre of Europe and the world, became a national capital: no longer central and unique, but marginal and very similar in its problems and its solutions to other modern cities with a heavy burden of 'heritage'. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis far-reaching book illuminates the historical significance of Rome's transformation and the crisis that Europe is now confronting as it struggles to re-invent without its ancestral centre -- the city that had made Europe what it was, and defined what it meant to be European.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Pemble\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198803966\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198803966\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/02\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.30w x 0.90d","brand":"John Pemble","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48517274992895,"sku":"9780198803966","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2e5ec5ba-9f6d-46d2-b215-66b1630e0446.jpg?v=1778731065","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rome-we-have-lost-john-pemble-9780198803966","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}