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In the late nineteenth century, the United States was known internationally as a place full of gaudiness and glitter. This book argues that this reputation was rooted in early nineteenth-century British and European ethnic nationalism, and the fashion of wearing colourful ethnic costuming that was adopted as part of these movements.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. American Looks
  • Chapter Two. Restyling an Old World: Metropolitan Fashion in the Antebellum U.S.
  • Chapter Three. “Clothes Upon Sticks”: The Settler Colonial Sartorial Eye
  • Chapter Four. Some Inscrutable Flattery of the Atmosphere: The Ethnic Nation in the White City
  • Conclusion
  • Index

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      Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 29/02/2024
      ISBN13: 9780472074891, 978-0472074891
      ISBN10: 047207489X
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      Literary studies: general Social and cultural anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In the late nineteenth century, the United States was known internationally as a place full of gaudiness and glitter. This book argues that this reputation was rooted in early nineteenth-century British and European ethnic nationalism, and the fashion of wearing colourful ethnic costuming that was adopted as part of these movements.

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgements
      • List of Illustrations
      • Introduction
      • Chapter One. American Looks
      • Chapter Two. Restyling an Old World: Metropolitan Fashion in the Antebellum U.S.
      • Chapter Three. “Clothes Upon Sticks”: The Settler Colonial Sartorial Eye
      • Chapter Four. Some Inscrutable Flattery of the Atmosphere: The Ethnic Nation in the White City
      • Conclusion
      • Index

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