| Description |
1 online resource (305 p.) |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- 1. Introduction to the Roman Fasces -- 2. Origins of the Fasces -- 3. Images of the Roman Fasces -- 4. Roman Fasces in Action -- 5. The Roman Fasces: Limits and Discontinuities -- 6. Carrying the Fasces -- 7. Roman Fasces in the Medieval and Renaissance Eras -- 8. Early Modern and Neoclassical Fasces -- 9. Popular and Revolutionary Fasces -- 10. American Fasces -- 11. Constructing Fasces in Mussolini's Italy -- 12. Eradication of Fasces and Epilogue -- Abbreviations and Note on Translations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
In ancient Rome, the fasces were a bundle of wooden rods bound with a leather cord, in which an axe was placed--in essence, a mobile kit for corporal or capital punishment. This book is the first attempt to explain in detail precisely how the ancient Romans made a familiar and highly effective spectacle of the fasces, and then how later generations understood, used, and abused this symbol |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Signs and symbols-Italy-History
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-- Fasces-History
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HISTORY.
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Ancient.
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Baltic States.
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Europe.
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Central America.
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Latin America.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780197644904 |
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0197644902 |
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