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Consumers' Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920

by Kristin L. Hoganson
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780807857939
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of North Carolina Press
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  • Pages: 416
  • Original Price: USD 42.5
  • Language: English
  • Edition: New ed
  • Item Weight: 649 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): United States / 19th Century

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.

Hoganson, Kristin L.: -

Kristin L. Hoganson is associate professor of history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and author of Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars.

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