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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion
Consumers’ Imperium (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Comfort Edition)
Author: Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 144299374X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Consumers' Imperium
Author: Kristin L. HogansonPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807888885
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
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.
Consumers’ Imperium (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Comfort Edition)
Author: Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 144299388X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature and Art
Author: George R. GrahamConsumers’ Imperium (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)
Author: Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442993944
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Album of American History: 1853-1893
Author: James Truslow AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Colonial
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The intent of the present work is to tell the history of America through pictures made at the time the history was being made.
Mrs. Astor's New York
Author: Eric HombergerPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300105155
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Mrs Astor, queen of New York society in the decades before World War I, used her prestige to create a social aristocracy in the city. Mrs Astor's story, told here by Eric Homberger, sheds light on the origins, extravagant lifestyle, and social competitiveness of this aristocracy.
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Author: Frank Leslie