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

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"Rome Reborn on Western Shores examines the literature of the Revolutionary era to explore the ways in which American patriots employed the classics and to assess antiquity's importance to the early political culture of the United States. Where other writers have concentrated on political...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shalev, Eran, 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville, Va. : University of Virginia Press, ©2009.
Colección:Jeffersonian America.
Temas:
1700-1799
Geschichte 1775-1883.
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.
Civilisation ancienne > Étude et enseignement > États-Unis > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Littérature ancienne > Étude et enseignement > États-Unis > Histoire > 18e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Civilization > Classical influences
Civilization, Classical > Study and teaching
Classical literature > Study and teaching
Political culture
Political science
Antike
Rezeption
Politieke cultuur.
Klassieke oudheid.
Historisch besef.
Amerikaanse Vrijheidsoorlog.
Rezeption.
Antike.
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Literature and the revolution.
United States > Civilization > Classical influences.
United States
USA
Verenigde Staten.
USA.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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