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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811804903321

Autore

Hoganson Kristin L

Titolo

Consumers' imperium : the global production of American domesticity, 1865-1920 / / Kristin L. Hoganson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill [N.C.], : University of North Carolina Press, c2007

ISBN

979-88-9313-156-7

1-4696-0419-1

0-8078-8888-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (417 p.)

Disciplina

306.30973/09034

306.3097309034

Soggetti

Consumption (Economics) - Social aspects - United States - History

Consumer behavior - United States - History

Social change - United States - History

Lifestyles - United States - History

Cosmopolitanism - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Shifting attention from exports to imports, from production to consumption, and from men to women, Hoganson makes it clear that globalization did not just happen beyond Americaâ€TMs 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.