Ancient Rome and modern America
By: Margaret Malamud.
Series: Classical receptions
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; Wiley-Interscience
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Malden, MA; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781405139335; 9781405139342
Subjects: National characteristics, American; Imperialism; United States -- Civilization -- Roman influences; United States -- History; United States -- Foreign relations; Rome -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-278) and index.

Includes filmography.
Table of contents: title: Exemplary Romans in the early Republic; title: Working men's heroes; title: Rome and the politics of slavery; title: Corporate caesars and radical reformers; title: Manifest virtue; title: The pleasures of empire; title: Screening Rome during the great depression; title: Cold war Romans; title: Imperial consumption.