First in the homes of his countrymen : George Washington's Mount Vernon in the American imagination /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brandt, Lydia Mattice (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016.
Subjects:
National monuments > Social aspects > United States.
Nationalism and architecture > United States.
Nationalism and collective memory > United States.
Sites classés > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Nationalisme et architecture > États-Unis.
Nationalisme et mémoire collective > États-Unis.
ARCHITECTURE > History > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Nationalism and architecture.
Nationalism and collective memory.
Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate)
Mount Vernon (Virg. : Domaine)
United States.
Virginia > Mount Vernon (Estate)
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prints and pilgrimage: 1790s1850s
  • "Keep it the home of Washington!": the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union, 1854-1890
  • Replicas, replicas, replicas: 1890s1920s
  • Battles of "authenticity": replicas and research in the 1930s
  • "In this changing and troubled world": social history and the American roadside, 1950s1980s.

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