Reading L'Enfant's Stars: An Antifederalist Critique of Washington D.C.

In 1790, a year after the Constitution of the United States was ratified, Congress passed an act to establish a federal city: Washington D.C. The principal actors in the early designs of the capital, George Washington and Pierre Charles LEnfant, understood the dialectic between the physical space an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Passino, Sarah McAuley
Other Authors: Dana Nelson
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: VANDERBILT 2006
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Online Access:http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-05262006-093521/