Consumers' Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865 - 1920ReadHowYouWant.com, 2009 M07 27 - 368 páginas Histories of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era tend to characterize the United States as an expansionist nation bent on Americanizing the world without being transformed itself. In Consumers 'Imperium, Kristin Hoganson reveals the other half of the story, demonstrating that the years between the Civil War and World War I were marked by heightened consumption of imports and strenuous efforts to appear cosmopolitan. Hoganson finds evidence of international connections in quintessentially domestic places-American households. She shows that well-to-do white women in this era expressed intense interest in other cultures through imported household objects, fashion, cooking, entertaining, armchair travel clubs, and the immigrant gifts movement. From curtains to clothing, from around-the-world parties to arts and crafts of the homelands exhibits, Hoganson presents a new perspective on the United States in the world by shifting attention from exports to imports, from production to consumption, and from men to women. She makes it clear that globalization did not just happen beyond America's shores, as a result of American military might and industrial power, but that it happened at home, thanks to imports, immigrants, geographical knowledge, and consumer preferences. Here is an international history that begins at home. |
Contenido
Immigrant Gifts American Appropriations Progressive | 1 |
The Global Production of American | 67 |
Notes | 98 |
Bibliography | 231 |
Back Cover Material | 325 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Consumers' Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865 - 1920 Kristin L. Hoganson Vista previa limitada - 2009 |
Consumers' Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920 Kristin L. Hoganson Vista previa limitada - 2007 |
Consumers' Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920 Kristin L. Hoganson Vista previa limitada - 2010 |
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