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George Washington's Mount Vernon brings together--for the first time--the details of Washington's 45-year endeavor to build and perfect Mount Vernon. In doing so it introduces us to a Washington few of his contemporaries knew, and one little noticed by historians since. Here we meet the pl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dalzell, Robert F.
Otros Autores: Dalzell, Lee Baldwin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Temas:
Washington, George, > 1732-1799 > Homes and haunts > Virginia > Fairfax County.
Washington, George, > 1732-1799
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Homes
Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate)
Mount Vernon (Virg. : Domaine)
Virginia > Fairfax County
Virginia > Mount Vernon (Estate)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; PART I: LANDSCAPES OF THE REPUBLIC; Patterns; 1. An Uncommon Place; 2. The Washingtons of Virginia, 1657-1757; Building; 3. A New Mount Vernon, 1758-1773; 4. "Things Not Quite Orthodox": George Washington, Architect; 5. The Third Edition-with Revisions-1774-1787; PART II: TOWARD DEMOCRACY; The Builders; 6. Slaves and Overseers; 7. Artisans; 8. Undertakers and Managers; The Uses of a Great House; 9. At Home and Away, 1788-1799; 10. To Give and Bequeath; Afterword: Redivivus, 1800-Present; Appendix: House-Building in Eighteenth-Century Virginia.

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