Capital Speculations: Writing and Building Washington, D.C. (Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies) (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Capital Speculations: Writing and Building Washington, D.C. (Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies) Sunday, August 2 2009.

• An imaginative analysis of the interplay between rhetoric and physical space in the creation of the nation's capital.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Capital Speculations: Writing and Building Washington, D.C. (Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies) Sunday, August 2 2009.

• Added a contributor: Sarah Luria: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Capital Speculations: Writing and Building Washington, D.C. (Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies) Friday, July 17 2009.

• The significance of speculation to the planning and early development of the Federal City, as Washington was first called, has been well documented by Bob Arnebeck and John W. Reps. Arnebeck notes that "understanding what the speculators did to the city <of Washington> is as crucial to understanding the city as studying what L'Enfant did or how the White House and Capitol were designed and built."