Rome Reborn on Western Shores : Historical Imagination and the Creation of the American Republic.
Shalev, Eran.
Rome Reborn on Western Shores : Historical Imagination and the Creation of the American Republic. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (329 pages) - Jeffersonian America Series . - Jeffersonian America Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A Revolutionary Language: History and the Classics in the Age of Revolution -- 2. Britannia Corrupt: The British Empire in the Revolutionary Classical Imagination -- 3. "Judge the Future by the Past": The Varieties of Historical Consciousness in Revolutionary America -- 4. Taking the Toga: American Patriots Performing Antiquity -- 5. Cato Americanus: Classical Pseudonyms and the Ratification of the Federal Constitution -- 6. "The Pen of the Historian, or the Imagination of the Poet": The Revolution's History Classicized -- Epilogue: From Republic to Empire: Beyond 1776 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
9780813928395
Classical literature - Study and teaching - United States - History - 18th century.
Electronic books.
JA84.U5S48 2009
973.3/1
Rome Reborn on Western Shores : Historical Imagination and the Creation of the American Republic. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (329 pages) - Jeffersonian America Series . - Jeffersonian America Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A Revolutionary Language: History and the Classics in the Age of Revolution -- 2. Britannia Corrupt: The British Empire in the Revolutionary Classical Imagination -- 3. "Judge the Future by the Past": The Varieties of Historical Consciousness in Revolutionary America -- 4. Taking the Toga: American Patriots Performing Antiquity -- 5. Cato Americanus: Classical Pseudonyms and the Ratification of the Federal Constitution -- 6. "The Pen of the Historian, or the Imagination of the Poet": The Revolution's History Classicized -- Epilogue: From Republic to Empire: Beyond 1776 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
9780813928395
Classical literature - Study and teaching - United States - History - 18th century.
Electronic books.
JA84.U5S48 2009
973.3/1