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

Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government - Jeffersonian America

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780813921181
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Imprint: University of Virginia Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 305.420975309034
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 299
Weight: 498g
Height: 236mm
Width: 154mm
Spine width: 22mm