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Category : Public buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Morrison's Stranger's Guide for Washington City
Author: Morrison's Stranger's Guide to the City of Washington and Its Vicinity ...
Author: Doing the Town
Author: Catherine CocksPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520227468
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
This fascinating cultural history, studded with vivid details bringing the experience of Victorian-era travel alive, explores the beginnings of urban tourism, and sets the phenomenon within a larger cultural transformation that encompassed fundamental changes in urban life and national identity.".
Washington Brotherhood
Author: Rachel A. SheldenPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146961085X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Traditional portrayals of politicians in antebellum Washington, D.C., describe a violent and divisive society, full of angry debates and violent duels, a microcosm of the building animosity throughout the country. Yet, in Washington Brotherhood, Rachel Shelden paints a more nuanced portrait of Washington as a less fractious city with a vibrant social and cultural life. Politicians from different parties and sections of the country interacted in a variety of day-to-day activities outside traditional political spaces and came to know one another on a personal level. Shelden shows that this engagement by figures such as Stephen Douglas, John Crittenden, Abraham Lincoln, and Alexander Stephens had important consequences for how lawmakers dealt with the sectional disputes that bedeviled the country during the 1840s and 1850s--particularly disputes involving slavery in the territories. Shelden uses primary documents--from housing records to personal diaries--to reveal the ways in which this political sociability influenced how laws were made in the antebellum era. Ultimately, this Washington "bubble" explains why so many of these men were unprepared for secession and war when the winter of 1860-61 arrived.
Morrison's Strangers' Guide to Washington City, illustrated with numerous engravings and map
Author: Francis H. GoodallBulletin
Author: Cincinnati (Ohio), Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Etiquette at Washington
Author: Catalogue
Author: C.F. Libbie & CoPublisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Accommodating the Republic
Author: Kirsten E. WoodPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469675552
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
People have gathered in public drinking places to drink, relax, socialize, and do business for hundreds of years. For just as long, critics have described taverns and similar drinking establishments as sources of individual ruin and public disorder. Examining these dynamics as Americans surged westward in the early nineteenth century, Kirsten E. Wood argues that entrepreneurial, improvement-minded men integrated many village and town taverns into the nation's rapidly developing transportation network and used tavern spaces and networks to raise capital, promote innovative businesses, practice genteel sociability, and rally support for favored causes—often while drinking the staggering amounts of alcohol for which the period is justly famous. White men's unrivaled freedom to use taverns for their own pursuits of happiness gave everyday significance to citizenship in the early republic. Yet white men did not have taverns to themselves. Sharing tavern spaces with other Americans intensified white men's struggles to define what, and for whom, taverns should be. At the same time, temperance and other reform movements increasingly divided white men along lines of party, conscience, and class. In both conflicts, some improvement-minded white men found common cause with middle-class white women and Black activists, who had their own stake in rethinking taverns and citizenship.
Annual List of Books Added to the Public Library of Cincinnati
Author: Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton CountyPublisher:
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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