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Download or read book A Handbook to the National Capital written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332846743
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (467 download)
Download or read book A Handbook to the National Capital (Classic Reprint) written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Handbook to the National Capital The corner-stone of the District of Columbia was laid April 15, 1791, at Hunter's Point, just south of Alex andria, Va. Washington City proper is about fourteen miles in circumference. It covers acres, and con tains about nine and a half square miles. It has over two hundred and fifty miles of streets, which are from eighty to one hundred and twenty feet wide, and sixty five miles of avenues, which are from one hundred and twenty to one hundred and sixty feet wide, and over eighty per cent. Of its streets and avenues are paved. They are also swept by machinery, so that they are kept as clean as the best sidewalk. More than shade trees line its thoroughfares. To show the great growth and improvements made in the city since 1800 it is only necessary to state that when the seat of Gov ernment was transferred from Philadelphia to Washing ton in October, 1800, the whole force of clerks employed was only fifty-four, and all of the books and papers were placed in seven small boxes and five large ones, and they were all brought over in one packet sloop. Fish were hauled in seines where the Center Market now stands, on Pennsylvania avenue, between Seventh and Ninth streets, and Washington was then facetiously called The Wilderness City but it is now one of the best governed municipalities in the United States, as well as one of the grandest and most cosmopolitan cities in the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781362691402
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (914 download)
Download or read book HANDBK TO THE NATL CAPITAL written by Anonymous and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. National Capital Planning Commission
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801883286
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Worthy of the Nation written by United States. National Capital Planning Commission and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-11-19 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with plans, maps, and new and historic photographs, the second edition of Worthy of the Nation provides researchers and general readers with an appealing and authoritative view of the planning and evolution of the federal district.
Author : Neil Harris
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022606784X
Total Pages : 649 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Capital Culture written by Neil Harris and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American art museums flourished in the late twentieth century, and the impresario leading much of this growth was J. Carter Brown, director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, from 1969 to 1992. Along with S. Dillon Ripley, who served as Smithsonian secretary for much of this time, Brown reinvented the museum experience in ways that had important consequences for the cultural life of Washington and its visitors as well as for American museums in general. In Capital Culture, distinguished historian Neil Harris provides a wide-ranging look at Brown’s achievement and the growth of museum culture during this crucial period. Harris combines his in-depth knowledge of American history and culture with extensive archival research, and he has interviewed dozens of key players to reveal how Brown’s showmanship transformed the National Gallery. At the time of the Cold War, Washington itself was growing into a global destination, with Brown as its devoted booster. Harris describes Brown’s major role in the birth of blockbuster exhibitions, such as the King Tut show of the late 1970s and the National Gallery’s immensely successful Treasure Houses of Britain, which helped inspire similarly popular exhibitions around the country. He recounts Brown’s role in creating the award-winning East Building by architect I. M. Pei and the subsequent renovation of the West building. Harris also explores the politics of exhibition planning, describing Brown's courtship of corporate leaders, politicians, and international dignitaries. In this monumental book Harris brings to life this dynamic era and exposes the creation of Brown's impressive but costly legacy, one that changed the face of American museums forever.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (253 download)
Download or read book A Hand-book to the National Capital written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lauren Pearlman
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469653915
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Democracy’s Capital written by Lauren Pearlman and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its 1790 founding until 1974, Washington, D.C.--capital of "the land of the free--lacked democratically elected city leadership. Fed up with governance dictated by white stakeholders, federal officials, and unelected representatives, local D.C. activists catalyzed a new phase of the fight for home rule. Amid the upheavals of the 1960s, they gave expression to the frustrations of black residents and wrestled for control of their city. Bringing together histories of the carceral and welfare states, as well as the civil rights and Black Power movements, Lauren Pearlman narrates this struggle for self-determination in the nation's capital. She captures the transition from black protest to black political power under the Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon administrations and against the backdrop of local battles over the War on Poverty and the War on Crime. Through intense clashes over funds and programming, Washington residents pushed for greater participatory democracy and community control. However, the anticrime apparatus built by the Johnson and Nixon administrations curbed efforts to achieve true home rule. As Pearlman reveals, this conflict laid the foundation for the next fifty years of D.C. governance, connecting issues of civil rights, law and order, and urban renewal.
Author : Robert Maitland
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 1845935462
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (459 download)
Download or read book City Tourism written by Robert Maitland and published by CABI. This book was released on 2009 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capital city status attracts and drives tourism by enhancing a city's appeal to the tourist and its international standing. With a focus on city tourism themes, this book examines subjects including the identity of a city in a tourism context and practical matters such as promoting the city as a product. By examining tourist activities in national capitals, the book addresses issues in capital city development as tourist destinations with a broad, international approach and case studies on major tourist cities.
Author : Chris Myers Asch
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469635879
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Chocolate City written by Chris Myers Asch and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America's expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a national battleground for contentious issues, including slavery, segregation, civil rights, the drug war, and gentrification. But D.C. is more than just a seat of government, and authors Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove also highlight the city's rich history of local activism as Washingtonians of all races have struggled to make their voices heard in an undemocratic city where residents lack full political rights. Tracing D.C.'s massive transformations--from a sparsely inhabited plantation society into a diverse metropolis, from a center of the slave trade to the nation's first black-majority city, from "Chocolate City" to "Latte City--Asch and Musgrove offer an engaging narrative peppered with unforgettable characters, a history of deep racial division but also one of hope, resilience, and interracial cooperation.
Author : Wilhelmus Bogart Bryan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A History of the National Capital from Its Foundation Through the Period of the Adoption of the Organic Act written by Wilhelmus Bogart Bryan and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric A. Hanushek
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026254895X
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book The Knowledge Capital of Nations written by Eric A. Hanushek and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rigorous, pathbreaking analysis demonstrating that a country's prosperity is directly related in the long run to the skills of its population. In this book Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann make a simple, central claim, developed with rigorous theoretical and empirical support: knowledge is the key to a country's development. Of course, every country acknowledges the importance of developing human capital, but Hanushek and Woessmann argue that message has become distorted, with politicians and researchers concentrating not on valued skills but on proxies for them. The common focus is on school attainment, although time in school provides a very misleading picture of how skills enter into development. Hanushek and Woessmann contend that the cognitive skills of the population—which they term the “knowledge capital” of a nation—are essential to long-run prosperity. Hanushek and Woessmann subject their hypotheses about the relationship between cognitive skills (as consistently measured by international student assessments) and economic growth to a series of tests, including alternate specifications, different subsets of countries, and econometric analysis of causal interpretations. They find that their main results are remarkably robust, and equally applicable to developing and developed countries. They demonstrate, for example, that the “Latin American growth puzzle” and the “East Asian miracle” can be explained by these regions' knowledge capital. Turning to the policy implications of their argument, they call for an education system that develops effective accountability, promotes choice and competition, and provides direct rewards for good performance.
Author : United States. National Park Service. National Capital Region
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (19 download)
Download or read book National Capital Region Management Information Handbook written by United States. National Park Service. National Capital Region and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Friedman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520956680
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Covert Capital written by Andrew Friedman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-08-02 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The capital of the U.S. Empire after World War II was not a city. It was an American suburb. In this innovative and timely history, Andrew Friedman chronicles how the CIA and other national security institutions created a U.S. imperial home front in the suburbs of Northern Virginia. In this covert capital, the suburban landscape provided a cover for the workings of U.S. imperial power, which shaped domestic suburban life. The Pentagon and the CIA built two of the largest office buildings in the country there during and after the war that anchored a new imperial culture and social world. As the U.S. expanded its power abroad by developing roads, embassies, and villages, its subjects also arrived in the covert capital as real estate agents, homeowners, builders, and landscapers who constructed spaces and living monuments that both nurtured and critiqued postwar U.S. foreign policy. Tracing the relationships among American agents and the migrants from Vietnam, El Salvador, Iran, and elsewhere who settled in the southwestern suburbs of D.C., Friedman tells the story of a place that recasts ideas about U.S. immigration, citizenship, nationalism, global interconnection, and ethical responsibility from the post-WW2 period to the present. Opening a new window onto the intertwined history of the American suburbs and U.S. foreign policy, Covert Capital will also give readers a broad interdisciplinary and often surprising understanding of how U.S. domestic and global histories intersect in many contexts and at many scales. American Crossroads, 37
Author : United States. National Park Service. National Capital Region
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book National Capital Region Management Information Handbook written by United States. National Park Service. National Capital Region and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Buckley
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307422623
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Washington Schlepped Here written by Christopher Buckley and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The father of our country slept with Martha, but schlepped in the District. Now in the great man’s footsteps comes humorist and twenty-year Washington resident Christopher Buckley with the real story of the city’s founding. Well, not really. We’re just trying to get you to buy the book. But we can say with justification that there’s never been a more enjoyable, funny, and informative tour guide to the city than Buckley. His delight as he points out things of interest is con-tagious, and his frequent digressions about his own adventures as a White House staffer are often hilarious. In Washington Schlepped Here, Buckley takes us along for several walks around the town and shares with us a bit of his “other” Washington. They include “Dante’s Paradiso” (Union Station); the “Zero Milestone of American democracy” (the U.S. Capitol); the “Almost Pink House” (the White House); and many other historical (and often hysterical) journeys. Buckley is the sort of wonderful guide who pries loose the abalone-like clichés that cling to a place as mythic as D.C. Wonderfully insightful and eminently practical, Washington Schlepped Here shows us that even a city whose chief industry is government bureaucracy is a lot funnier and more surprising than its media-ready image might let on. From the Hardcover edition.
Author : Roland Smith
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN 13 : 158536763X
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (853 download)
Download or read book N Is for Our Nation's Capital written by Roland Smith and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2010-10-22 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bursting with history like no other city in the world, Washington DC is a tribute to the United States, its people and even the world. Monuments spot the landscape, tourists spot the monuments and their legends are learned. The story of DC doesn't stop there. Look beyond the monuments. That's exactly the Washington DC readers will discover with N is for our Nation's Capital: A Washington DC Alphabet. From Abigail Adams to the National Zoo and all the cherry blossoms, flags, houses and presidents in between, N is for Our Nation's Capital is like a field trip in a binding. Rhymes capture readers' interest and expository text expands on those points and others with little-known but fascinating facts. Did you know the cherry blossom trees that are an integral part of DC's scenery were gifts from Japan? Or that Mrs. Taft planted the first two? Readers will eagerly turn the pages to learn more true facts like these. Wonderfully written in engaging rhymes for young readers backed with expository text that reveals even more for the more inquisitive reader make N is for our Nation's Capital the perfect keepsake and tribute to Washington DC. Authored by the husband and wife team of Roland and Marie Smith and backed by Barbara Gibson's stylish illustrations, N is for our Nation's Capital is a perfect fit on any bookshelf. This great exploration into our country's nerve center will have teachers and parents excited and help introduce one of the world's most important cities to children from sea to shining sea.
Author : Charles Burr Todd
Publisher : New York & London, G. P. Putnam's sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Story of Washington written by Charles Burr Todd and published by New York & London, G. P. Putnam's sons. This book was released on 1889 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
