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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823808003321

Autore

Shalev Eran <1970->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2009

ISBN

0-8139-2839-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 p.)

Collana

Jeffersonian America

Disciplina

973.3/1

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.