Consumers' imperium
Subtitle: the global production of American domesticity, 1865-1920
By: Kristin L. Hoganson.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9780807830895; 9780807857939
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
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Beyond Main Street : imperial nightmares and gopher prairie yearnings; title: Cosmopolitan domesticity, imperial accessories : importing the American dream; title: The fashionable world : imagined communities of dress; title: Entertaining difference : popular geography in various guises; title: Girdling the globe : the fictive travel movement and the rise of the tourist mentality; title: Immigrant gifts, American appropriations : Progressive Era pluralism as imperialist nostalgia; title: Conclusion: The global production of American domesticity; title: Appendix of travel clubs.