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

• Autore: Shalev Eran <1970->
• Pubblicazione: Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2009
• 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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.: 9910457693903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Jeffersonian America.