Cosmopolitan Domesticity: Importing the American Dream, 1865-1920

Hoganson challenges conceptions of households and preeminently local spaces by contending that they should be considered instead as points of global encounter. Drawing on government import figures, photographs of household interiors, catalogs and decoration writings from the end of the US Civil War...

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Published in:The American historical review 2002-02, Vol.107 (1), p.55-83
Main Author: Hoganson, Kristin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Consumer goods
Cosmopolitanism
Cultural contact
Cultural history
Domesticity
Globalization
History
Home furnishings
Households
Imperialism
Interior design
International relations
Middle class
Orientalism
Polygamy
Rooms
U.S.A
United States history
US imports
Women
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Summary:Hoganson challenges conceptions of households and preeminently local spaces by contending that they should be considered instead as points of global encounter. Drawing on government import figures, photographs of household interiors, catalogs and decoration writings from the end of the US Civil War through WWI, she finds that bourgeois American women eagerly embraced foreign objects and decorating style.
ISSN:0002-8762
1937-5239
DOI:10.1086/532096