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BL
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| Record Number
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701122
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b523311
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| Main Entry
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Shalev, Eran,1970-
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| Title & Author
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Rome reborn on western shores : : historical imagination and the creation of the American republic /\ Eran Shalev
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| Publication Statement
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Charlottesville :: University of Virginia Press,, 2009
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| Series Statement
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Jeffersonian America
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| Page. NO
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xiii, 311 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0813928338 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 0813928397 (e-book)
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: 9780813928333 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 9780813928395 (e-book)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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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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| Subject
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Civilization, Classical-- Study and teaching-- United States-- History-- 18th century
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Classical literature-- Study and teaching-- United States-- History-- 18th century
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Political culture-- United States-- History-- 18th century
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Political science-- United States-- History-- 18th century
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United States, Civilization, Classical influences
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United States, History, Revolution, 1775-1783, Literature and the revolution
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| Dewey Classification
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973.3/1
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| LC Classification
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JA84.U5S48 2009
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