Consumers' Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920 - Couverture souple

Hoganson, Kristin L.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0807857939 ISBN 13 : 9780807857939

Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2007

Synopsis

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. 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. 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 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kristin L. Hoganson is associate professor of history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and author of Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807857939
• ISBN 13: 9780807857939
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 418
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