Rome reborn on western shores : historical imagination and the creation of the American republic / Eran Shalev.

SeriesJeffersonian America
Jeffersonian America. ^A426223
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2009007720
ISBN9780813928333 (cloth : alk. paper)
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