An American aristocracy : southern planters in antebellum Philadelphia /
Kilbride, Daniel,1968-
Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press,
c2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-204) and index.
The Carolina row -- The Fisher family circle -- "Your appropriate sphere as a lady" : Philadelphia's French schools -- The republic of medicine -- Science and sociability : the American Philosophical Society -- "All the world is a city" : travel and tourism.
Philadelphia (Pa.)
Philadelphia (Pa.)
Interpersonal relations
Aristocracy (Political science)
Aristocracy (Political science)
Plantation owners
Leisure class
Social classes
Community life
Sectionalism (United States)