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Autore: | Shalev Eran <1970-> |
Titolo: | Rome reborn on western shores : historical imagination and the creation of the American republic / / Eran Shalev |
Pubblicazione: | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2009 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (329 p.) |
Disciplina: | 973.3/1 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Soggetto geografico: | United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Literature and the revolution |
United States Civilization Classical influences | |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Rome reborn on western shores |
ISBN: | 0-8139-2839-7 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910823808003321 |
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