Parlor Politics

In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-8139-2118-1
Verlag: University of Virginia Press

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 534 g

Reihe: Jeffersonian America

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Allgor, Catherine

Über Autor(innen)

Catherine Allgor, winner of dissertation awards from Yale University and the Organization of American Historians, is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside.