Capital speculations : writing and building Washington, D.C. / Sarah Luria.

Author
Luria, Sarah [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Durham, N.H. : University of New Hampshire Press ; Lebanon, N.H. : University Press of New England, ©2006.
Description
xxxi, 196 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

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      Series
      Becoming modern [More in this series]
      Notes
      "Published in association with the Center for American Places Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Staunton, Virginia"--Preliminary page.
      Bibliographic references
      Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-190) and index.
      Contents
      • Ch. 1. George Washington's romance : plotting the federal city, 1791-1800
      • Ch. 2. poetry of internal improvements : Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman in Civil War Washington
      • Ch. 3. house united : Frederick Douglass's interracial domesticity during reconstruction
      • Ch. 4. Democracy's church : the Hay-Adams houses during the gilded age.
      ISBN
      • 9781584655015 ((alk. paper))
      • 1584655011 ((alk. paper))
      • 9781584655022 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
      • 158465502X ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
      LCCN
      2005021673
      OCLC
      61178184
      International Article Number
      • 9781584655015
      • 9781584655022
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