George Washington's Washington: Visions For The National Capital In The Early American Republic (Early American Places Ser.) - 9780820352855

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: Adam Costanzo
• | Publisher: University Of Georgia Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 01, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 264 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0820352853
• | ISBN-13: 9780820352855