| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.4

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Book Review

Consumers' Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865–1920. By Kristin L. Hoganson. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xiv, 402 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3089-5. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5793-9.)
Kristin L. Hoganson continues her boundary-busting ways. Her previous work on gender and culture in diplomatic history helped widen the scope of that field. Befitting a book on the emergence of cosmopolitan tastes among American women, Consumers' Imperium visits women's history, material culture, Progressive Era and ethnic history, and consumer history—all with a passport from Hoganson's home in international relations. The book escapes our usual parochial categories, and that is one of the highest compliments to give any work.	1
Hoganson's point of departure is late nineteenth-century American military and commercial expansion, which was hardly a one-way trip outward. As the United States expanded, it imported much of the world back into itself. If trade followed the flag, then elite American women made sure that it came back through an astonishing array of imported consumer wares. Though these mostly well-to-do, mostly northeastern and midwestern women were no critics of imperialism, they used the international bazaar to widen the parameters of cultural self-expression. They remained loyal daughters of American power, but they broadened their horizons and approached the vast differences between colonized and colonizer with a temper of curiosity, if not genuine broad-mindedness.	. . .

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