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

• Autore: Hoganson Kristin L
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill [N.C.], : University of North Carolina Press, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (417 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.30973/09034
• Soggetto topico: Consumption (Economics) - Social aspects - United States - History; Consumer behavior - United States - History; Social change - United States - History; Lifestyles - United States - History; Cosmopolitanism - United States
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Consumers' imperium
• ISBN: 1-4696-0419-1; 0-8078-8888-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791814403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II