Domesticating History: The Political Origins of America's House Museums
By (author): "Patricia West"
ISBN1560988118
ISBN139781560988113
AsinDomesticating History: The Political Origins of America's House Museums
Original titleDOMESTICATING HIST PB
Focusing on George Washington's Mount Vernon, Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House, Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, and the Booker T. Washington National Monument, West shows how historic houses reflect less the lives and times of their famous inhabitants than the political pressures of the eras during which they were transformed into museums.