Washington: Village and Capital, 1800–1878
Washington: Village and Capital, 1800–1878 won the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for History. This one-volume edition is a history of Washington originally published in two parts. Originally published in 1977, this edition uses print-on-demand technology to make available a previously out-of-print book from the backlist of Princeton University Press.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Year
- 2013
- ISBN-13
- 9781400847693
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- Washington D.C. historyUrban development19th-century America
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for HistoryWonMajor(1963)
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