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Rome reborn on western shores, historical imagination and the creation of the American republic, Eran Shalev

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Rome reborn on western shores, historical imagination and the creation of the American republic, Eran Shalev

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-293) and index

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

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illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Rome reborn on western shores

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

316512906

Responsibility statement

Eran Shalev

Series statement

Jeffersonian America

Sub title

historical imagination and the creation of the American republic

Table Of 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

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