Rome reborn on western shores
Subtitle: historical imagination and the creation of the American republic
By: Eran Shalev.
Series: Jeffersonian America
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780813928333; 9780813928395
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A revolutionary language: history and the classics in the age of revolution; title: Britannia corrupt: the British empire in the revolutionary classical imagination; title: "Judge the future by the past": the varieties of historical consciousness in revolutionary America; title: Taking the toga: American patriots performing antiquity; title: Cato americanus: classical pseudonyms and the ratification of the federal constitution; title: "The pen of the historian, or the imagination of the poet": the revolution's history classicized; title: Epilogue: from republic to empire: beyond 1776.