historical imagination and the creation of the American republic /
First Statement of Responsibility
Eran Shalev
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Charlottesville :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Virginia Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2009
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xiii, 311 p. :
Other Physical Details
ill. ;
Dimensions
24 cm
SERIES
Series Title
Jeffersonian America
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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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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TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Civilization, Classical-- Study and teaching-- United States-- History-- 18th century
Classical literature-- Study and teaching-- United States-- History-- 18th century
Political culture-- United States-- History-- 18th century
Political science-- United States-- History-- 18th century
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
United States, Civilization, Classical influences
United States, History, Revolution, 1775-1783, Literature and the revolution