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Rome reborn on western shores : historical imagination and the creation of the American republic / Eran Shalev.

Author/creator Shalev, Eran, 1970-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoCharlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.
Descriptionxiii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)
Political science--United States --History --18th century.
Political culture--United States --History --18th century.
Civilization, Classical--Study and teaching --United States --History --18th century.
Classical literature--Study and teaching --United States --History --18th century.
United States--History --Revolution, 1775-1783 --Literature and the revolution.
United States--Civilization --Classical influences.
Series Jeffersonian America
Jeffersonian America. ^A426223
Contents A revolutionary language: history and the classics in the age of revolution -- Britannia corrupt: the British empire in the revolutionary classical imagination -- "Judge the future by the past": the varieties of historical consciousness in revolutionary America -- Taking the toga: American patriots performing antiquity -- Cato americanus: classical pseudonyms and the ratification of the federal constitution -- "The pen of the historian, or the imagination of the poet": the revolution's history classicized -- Epilogue: from republic to empire: beyond 1776.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2009007720
ISBN9780813928333 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0813928338 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780813928395 (e-book)
ISBN0813928397 (e-book)

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