Catherine Allgor

Broschiertes Buch

Parlor Politics

In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Virginia Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9780813921181
• ISBN-10: 081392118X
• Artikelnr.: 21164089