Rome reborn on western shores : historical imagination and the creation of the American republic / Eran Shalev.
| Author/creator | Shalev, Eran, 1970- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009. |
| Description | xiii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Jeffersonian 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2009007720 |
| ISBN | 9780813928333 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0813928338 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780813928395 (e-book) |
| ISBN | 0813928397 (e-book) |