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Political terrain : Washington, D.C., from tidewater town to global metropolis /

"In an explanation of the many identities Washington has taken on over time, Carl Abbott examines the ways in which the city's regional orientation and national symbolism have been interpreted by novelists and business boosters, architects and blues artists, map makers and politicians.&quo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Abbott, Carl
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1999.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Illustrations
  • Maps
  • Tables
  • Preface
  • 1. Placing Washington
  • Regional Dynamics: Culture, Connections, Claims
  • Nodes, Networks, and Modern Times
  • Coming Attractions
  • Notes
  • 2. The Grand Columbian Federal City
  • A Capital for Middle America
  • Centrality and Commerce
  • Riverside Settlement
  • Tidewater Town
  • Potomac River Community
  • Notes
  • Transitions: From Town to Metropolis
  • Notes
  • 3. A Two-Sided Mirror
  • Border Politics
  • Reconstructing Washington
  • A Negro National City
  • A New York for the South
  • The Capital of Reconciliation.
  • The Persistent South
  • Notes
  • Transitions: Women, Work, and Region
  • Notes
  • 4. A City of a Novel Type
  • The Paris of America
  • A Magnet for the People
  • The Pencil-Sharpener Revolution
  • City of Conversation
  • Notes
  • Transitions: Los Angeles on the Potomac
  • Notes
  • 5. Global Capital
  • Entering the World
  • Hope of the Western World
  • Information Capital
  • International Washington and the Power of History
  • Notes
  • 6. Washington at 2000: Place, Region, Network
  • Washington and Its River
  • Midatlantic Metropolis
  • A City of the Twentieth Century
  • Place and Politics.
  • Notes
  • Notes
  • Essays on Sources
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D-E
  • F-G
  • H-I
  • J-L
  • M
  • N
  • O-P
  • Q-R
  • S
  • T-U
  • V-W
  • Z.