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Capital speculations : writing and building Washington, D.C. / Sarah Luria.
Author
Luria, Sarah
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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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PS253.D6 L87 2006
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Subject(s)
American literature
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Washington (D.C.)
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History and criticism
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American literature
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19th century
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History and criticism
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Architecture and literature
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History
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19th century
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Architecture
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Washington (D.C.)
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Speculation
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Washington (D.C.).
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Architecture in literature
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Washington (D.C.)
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Buildings, structures, etc
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Washington (D.C.)
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Intellectual life
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Washington (D.C.)
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In literature
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Washington (D.C.)
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History
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Series
Becoming modern
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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.
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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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