Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on April 10, 2009
Enterprise and Society 2009 10(2):413-415; doi:10.1093/es/khp009
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Kristin L. Hoganson. Consumers Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865–1920
Kristin L. Hoganson. Consumers Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865–1920. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xiv + 402 pp. ISBN 978-0-8078-5793-9, $24.95 (paper).
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Kristin L. Hoganson's impressive book, Consumer's Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, deepens our understanding of how globalized consumerism and Americans consumerist practices historically formed America's international roles. Most importantly, Hoganson uses everyday practices of everyday consuming women to demonstrate how the self-definition of the United States as a global, imperialist power arose not just from federal efforts but from what American citizens wanted to buy,
Miami University of Ohio