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Consumers' Imperium
Kristin L. Hoganson
其他書名
The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920
出版
Univ of North Carolina Press
, 2010-03-15
主題
History / United States / 19th Century
Social Science / Women's Studies
ISBN
0807888885
9780807888889
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=rW2u3CDLaa4C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.