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The Heartland

An American History

By: Kristin L. Hoganson

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The Heartland

An American History

By: Kristin L. Hoganson

A history of a quintessentially American place--the rural and small town heartland--that uncovers deep yet hidden currents of connection with the world. When Kristin L. Hoganson arrived in Champaign, Illinois, after teaching at Harvard, studying at Yale, and living in the D.C. metro area with various stints overseas, she expected to find her new home, well, isolated. Even provincial. After all, she had landed in the American heartland, a place where the nation's identity exists in its pristine form. Or so we have been taught to believe. Struck by the gap between reputation and reality, she determined to get to the bottom of history and myth. The deeper she dug into the making of the modern heartland, the wider her story became as she realized that she'd uncovered an unheralded crossroads of people, commerce, and ideas. But the really interesting thing, Hoganson found, was that over the course of American history, even as the region's connections with the rest of the planet became increasingly dense and intricate, the idea of the rural Midwest as a steadfast heartland became a stronger and more stubbornly immovable myth. In enshrining a symbolic heart, the American people have repressed the kinds of stories that Hoganson tells, of sweeping breadth and depth and soul. In The Heartland, Kristin L. Hoganson drills deep into the center of the country, only to find a global story in the resulting core sample. Deftly navigating the disconnect between history and myth, she tracks both the backstory of this region and the evolution of the idea of an unalloyed heart at the center of the land. A provocative and highly original work of historical scholarship, The Heartland speaks volumes about pressing preoccupations, among them identity and community, immigration and trade, and security and global power. And food. To read it is to be inoculated against using the word "heartland" unironically ever again.

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0525561633

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9780525561637

The Heartland

An American History

By: Kristin L. Hoganson

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An American History

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Consumers' Imperium

The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920

By: Kristin L. Hoganson

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Consumers' Imperium

The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920

By: Kristin L. Hoganson

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.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807888885

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9780807888889

Fighting for American Manhood

How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars

By: Kristin L. Hoganson

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Fighting for American Manhood

How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars

By: Kristin L. Hoganson

This groundbreaking book blends international relations and gender history to provide a new understanding of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American wars. Kristin L. Hoganson shows how gendered ideas about citizenship and political leadership influenced jingoist political leaders` desire to wage these conflicts, and she traces how they manipulated ideas about gender to embroil the nation in war. She argues that racial beliefs were only part of the cultural framework that undergirded U.S. martial policies at the turn of the century. Gender beliefs, also affected the rise and fall of the nation`s imperialist impulse. Drawing on an extensive range of sources, including congressional debates, campaign speeches, political tracts, newspapers, magazines, political cartoons, and the papers of politicians, soldiers, suffragists, and other political activists, Hoganson discusses how concerns about manhood affected debates over war and empire. She demonstrates that jingoist political leaders, distressed by the passing of the Civil War generation and by women`s incursions into electoral politics, embraced war as an opportunity to promote a political vision in which soldiers were venerated as model citizens and women remained on the fringes of political life. These gender concerns not only played an important role in the Spanish-American and Philippine-American wars, they have echoes in later time periods, says the author, and recognizing their significance has powerful ramifications for the way we view international relations. Yale Historical Publications

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Yale University Press

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0300085540

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9780300085549

American Empire at the Turn at the Twentieth Century

A Brief History with Documents

By: Kristin L. Hoganson

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American Empire at the Turn at the Twentieth Century

A Brief History with Documents

By: Kristin L. Hoganson

This volume introduces students to primary documents on American empire from a pivotal era of U.S. expansion beyond the North American continent in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Along with covering a wide range of places-including Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines--the documents touch on a wide range of themes, among them race, citizenship, civilization, democracy, cross-cultural encounter, and self-determination. Kristin Hoganson's introduction provides the context essential to understanding this period and the ways in which the echoes of 1898 still reverberate today, including in the reach of U.S. power and the composition of the American people. Through a collection of sources representing the voices of those living under imperial rule as well as those imposing and opposing it, students can consider the American imperial endeavors. Document headnotes, maps, a Chronology of American Empire in the Caribbean and the Pacific, Questions for Consideration, and a Selected Bibliography provide pedagogical support.

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Macmillan Higher Education

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1319065066

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9781319065065

Consumers' Imperium

The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920

By: Kristin L. Hoganson

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The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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Fighting for American Manhood

How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars

By: Kristin L. Hoganson

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How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars

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Yale University Press

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Book's by Kristin L. Hoganson

The Heartland

The Heartland

The Heartland

The Heartland

Consumers' Imperium

Consumers' Imperium

Fighting for American Manhood

Fighting for American Manhood

American Empire at the Turn at the Twentieth Century

American Empire at the Turn at the Twentieth Century

Consumers' Imperium

Consumers' Imperium

Fighting for American Manhood

Fighting for American Manhood

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