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Consumer's Imperium
Author | : Kristin L. Hoganson |
Publisher | : Readhowyouwant |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 2009-08-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781442982185 |
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.
Consumer's Imperium
Author | : Kristin L. Hoganson |
Publisher | : Readhowyouwant |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 2009-08-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781442982093 |
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.
Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction
Author | : Robert C. Allen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2011-09-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0199596654 |
Together these countries pioneered new technologies that have made them ever richer.
The Great Depression and New Deal
Author | : Eric Rauchway |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2008-03-10 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0195326342 |
The Great Depression forced the United States to adopt policies at odds with its political traditions. This title looks at the background to the Depression, its social impact, and at the various governmental attempts to deal with the crisis.
The Great Philosophers
Author | : Karl Jaspers |
Publisher | : London : R. Hart-Davis |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Philosophers |
ISBN | : |
The Writer and the World
Author | : V. S. Naipaul |
Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 653 |
Release | : 2012-03-22 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0330529366 |
During forty years of travel, V. S. Naipaul has created a wide-ranging body of work, an exceptional and sustained meditation on our world. Now his finest pieces of reflection and reportage – many of which have been unavailable for some time – are collected in one volume. With an abiding faith in modernity balanced by a sense of wonder about the past, Naipaul has explored an astonishing variety of societies and peoples through the prism of his experience. Whether writing about Indian mutinies and despair, Mobutu’s mad reign in Zaire, or the New York mayoral elections, he demonstrates time and again that no one has a shrewder intuition of the ways in which the world works. Infused with a deeply felt humanism, The Writer and the World attests powerfully not only to Naipaul’s status as the great English prose stylist of our time but also to his keen, often prophetic, understanding. ‘All [of these essays] are worth reading (and rereading), both for the contemporary and historical information and insight they artfully impart and for what they tell us about a uniquely complex writer’ Spectator