Hoganson, Kristin L.

Consumers' imperium the global production of American domesticity, 1865-1920 / [electronic resource] : Kristin L. Hoganson. - Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, c2007. - xiv, 402 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects--History.--United States
Consumer behavior--History.--United States
Social change--History.--United States
Lifestyles--History.--United States
Cosmopolitanism--United States.


Electronic books.

HC110.C6 / H57 2007

306.30973/09034