02846nam 2200637Ia 450 991045769390332120200520144314.00-8139-2839-7(CKB)2550000000059437(EBL)3444072(OCoLC)757723458(SSID)ssj0000569928(PQKBManifestationID)11354098(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000569928(PQKBWorkID)10587678(PQKB)11780533(MiAaPQ)EBC3444072(MdBmJHUP)muse6619(Au-PeEL)EBL3444072(CaPaEBR)ebr10614784(EXLCZ)99255000000005943720090220d2009 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRome reborn on western shores[electronic resource] historical imagination and the creation of the American republic /Eran ShalevCharlottesville University of Virginia Press20091 online resource (329 p.)Jeffersonian AmericaDescription based upon print version of record.0-8139-2833-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Jeffersonian America.Political scienceUnited StatesHistory18th centuryPolitical cultureUnited StatesHistory18th centuryCivilization, ClassicalStudy and teachingUnited StatesHistory18th centuryClassical literatureStudy and teachingUnited StatesHistory18th centuryUnited StatesHistoryRevolution, 1775-1783Literature and the revolutionUnited StatesCivilizationClassical influencesElectronic books.Political scienceHistoryPolitical cultureHistoryCivilization, ClassicalStudy and teachingHistoryClassical literatureStudy and teachingHistory973.3/1Shalev Eran1970-931329MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457693903321Rome reborn on western shores2095083UNINA