George Washington's Washington: Visions for the National Capital in the Early American Republic
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George Washington's Washington: Visions for the National Capital in the Early American Republic
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Introduction -- Part I. Grand visions and financial disasters. Dreams of metropolis -- Speculating in failure -- A boomtown without a boom -- Part II. A "federal town" on the Potomac. Jeffersonians and the federal city -- The limits of local control -- Part III. Making the capital national, 1814-1828. Saving and rebuilding Washington -- Striving to be a national city -- Part IV. The seat of a continental empire. A symbolic national capital -- Federal intervention -- Epilogue.
Author(s): Adam Costanzo
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2018
Pages: 263
Categories: History