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Ancient past, imperial present: the British Empire in T.J. Dunbabin's The western Greeks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Franco De Angelis
Franco De Angelis*
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Department of History, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada T1K 3M4. deangelis@uleth.ca
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Abstract

T.J. Dunbabin's book The western Greeks was published 50 years ago. In it he modelled the development of the Greek cities of Italy on the British Empire of the 1930s. Here Franco De Angelis explores the problem of faulty and distorting analogies.

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GreeksSicilyItalyMagna GraeciacolonialismDunbabin
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Antiquity , Volume 72 , Issue 277 , September 1998 , pp. 539 - 549
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1998

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