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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Washington as Symbolic City
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Front Matter
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Washington as Political City
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
"Admittedly written as the text for a course on the nation's capital, this book provides a sprightly, informative, and often illuminating portrait of Washington, D.C. Although aimed at D.C. college students, it could also act as a travel guide...the audience could be wide...the book's ten chapters eloquently and adroitly explore such subjects as Washington's heritage of design (the L'Enfant Plan and the McMillan Commission), its memorials and monumentality, its host of museums, its politics, its economy, and its society, rich and poor. The authors especially focus on the city's unique and constraining geographic and political boundaries and Washington's long, rich, but troubled racial history. Unlike a travel guide, all of these discussions are finely nuanced." - J. F. Bauman, University of Southern Maine, Choice January 2015 52:52-2735
About the authors
Julie Yarwood is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at The Catholic University of America. She is currently working on her dissertation, which examines the links between religion and politics during the New Deal through the perspective of local religious leaders.
Laura G. Daughtery, PhD is Associate Professor at the National Catholic School of Social Service, The Catholic University of America. She is a licensed practitioner with more than a decade of experience in Washington, DC. Prior to joining NCSSS, Daughtery spent more than two decades as a print and broadcast journalist covering Washington, DC.
Maria Mazzenga, PhD is Education Archivist at the American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives of The Catholic University of America. Her research and publications focus on US society and culture in the 1920-1950 period and American Catholic life. She is the author of American Religious Responses to Kristallnacht.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Washington 101
Book Subtitle: An Introduction to the Nation’s Capital
Authors: Matthew N. Green, Julie Yarwood, Laura Daughtery, Maria Mazzenga
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137426246
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political Science Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Matthew N. Green, Julie Yarwood, Laura Daughtery, Maria Mazzenga 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-43338-1Published: 18 June 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-49266-4Published: 18 December 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-42624-6Published: 24 December 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 270
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations
Topics: Environmental Management, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Political History, European Politics, Political Science, Urbanism