Title: Consumers' imperium : the global production of American domesticity, 1865-1920 /
Authors: Hoganson, Kristin L.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Consumption (Economics) Social aspects United States History.; Consumer behavior United States History.; Social change United States History.; Lifestyles United States History.; Cosmopolitanism United States.
Abstract: From curtains to clothing, from around-the-world parties to arts and crafts, this work presents different perspectives on the United States in the world by shifting attention from exports to imports, from production to consumption, and from men to women.
Contents: Beyond Main Street : imperial nightmares and gopher prairie yearnings -- Cosmopolitan domesticity, imperial accessories : importing the American dream -- The fashionable world : imagined communities of dress -- Entertaining difference : popular geography in various guises -- Girdling the globe : the fictive travel movement and the rise of the tourist mentality -- Immigrant gifts, American appropriations : Progressive Era pluralism as imperialist nostalgia -- Conclusion: The global production of American domesticity -- Appendix of travel clubs.