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Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government - Jeffersonian America New edition
Catherine Allgor
Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government - Jeffersonian America New edition
Catherine Allgor
Catherine Allgor describes the various ways genteel elite women during the first decades of the 19th century used ""social events"" and the ""private sphere"" to establish the national capital and to build the extraofficial structures so sorely needed in the infant federal government.
320 pages, illustrations
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | March 31, 2002 |
ISBN13 | 9780813921181 |
Publishers | University of Virginia Press |
Pages | 320 |
Dimensions | 154 × 236 × 22 mm · 498 g |
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