population is mostly absent. George Washington’s Washington provides tantalizing snapshots of the district’s demographics at certain points, and the book is littered with examples of the capital’s vernacular architecture, but rarely is the reader transported to the street level, where politicians rubbed elbows with tradesmen, laborers, enslaved people, and the rest of the population. For the most part, these people appear as the objects of debates held by elite landowners and congressmen, rather than as actors in their own right. Especially in light of recent scholarship on the lower and middling sorts, it would be interesting to know how ordinary citizens of the District of Columbia shaped its development independent of the visions of powerful men. Despite this omission, however, Costanzo’s book is a thorough and engaging account of the development of the nation’s capital in its formative years and will no doubt be read and cited for decades as the authoritative work on the subject.

中文翻译：

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华盛顿大厦：新联邦城市的工程与建设，1790-1840 年，罗伯特·J. 卡普施 (Robert J. Kapsch)

人口大多不存在。乔治华盛顿的华盛顿在某些点上提供了该地区人口统计的诱人快照，书中散布着首都乡土建筑的例子，但读者很少被带到街道上，在那里政客与商人、劳工、被奴役的人擦肩而过，和其他人口。在大多数情况下，这些人似乎是精英地主和国会议员辩论的对象，而不是他们自己的演员。尤其是鉴于最近对中低等的学术研究，了解哥伦比亚特区的普通公民如何独立于有权势的人的愿景而塑造其发展将会很有趣。然而，尽管有这个遗漏，