Description
Book SynopsisIn 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
