Pub Date : 2022-07-25DOI: 10.1017/S1537781422000305
Lewis Defrates
Abstract This article examines American travel and performance in Britain in the decades prior to the First World War, arguing that the expression of nationality in this transatlantic context played a profound role in formulating both America’s dominant culture and a culture of opposition advanced by African American performers. It explores this “oppositional” culture in detail, focusing on the transatlantic work of Ida B. Wells and the Fisk Jubilee Singers. Both found a sympathetic audience across the Atlantic at a time of increased repression at home. British support opened new avenues for these activists, but also limited the rhetorical possibilities of their work. By bringing into conversation previously separate historiographies on early waves of “Americanization,” the transnational dimensions of various reform movements and the international formation of the Black Atlantic, it illustrates the economic, infrastructural, and racial inequalities that shaped the United States’ emerging national culture.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.1017/s1537781422000202
Matthew G. Johnson
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Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.1017/s153778142200024x
S. Bell
In Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles: Americans in Nineteenth-Century Fiji, Nancy Shoemaker successfully weaves the history of nineteenth-century Fiji and its extraterritorial Americans into a cohesive story that illuminates the role of Fiji in the “ political evolution of the United States ” (16). Shoemaker argues that the United States ’ s extraterritorial machinations began significantly earlier than many think, and the case of Fiji therefore greatly extends the geography of American imperialism and pushes its temporal bounds backward several generations. Equally important, imperialist patterns first practiced in the Cannibal Isles can be used to understand U.S. actions long after its involvement in Fiji: “ The value of extraterritoriality and the government protection afforded extraterritorial Americans pushed the United States to enlarge its global scope and power ” (17). ” in straight-forward, linear narrative, U.S. and tethers Shoemaker ’ s to
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Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.1017/s1537781422000275
N. Unger
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Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.1017/S1537781422000251
Abigail M. Markwyn
Robert Hellyer ’ s new book Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America ’ s Tea Cups exemplifies the surprising insights that can emerge from transnational research. Hellyer brings his expertise in Japanese history and his own family history to a study of tea that spans the Pacific (and at times the Atlantic) Ocean. By using commodity chains to trace the changing relationships between American consumers and Asian producers, he reveals a fascinating history of the beverage that most Americans more likely associate with the American Revolution than Japan. Hellyer convincingly argues that Americans have had a long and complex relationship with green and black tea that has nothing to do with the Boston Tea Party. Rather, he demonstrates, American tea consumption has a storied history shaped by events ranging from internal immigration debates to Japanese political changes and racialized advertising campaigns. In turn, the rise and fall of green tea in the United States shaped tea consumption in Japan. This slim volume will interest not only tea lovers but those interested in the intertwined histories of the United States and Japan.Hellyer ’ s book is organized into six chronological chapters that cover the history of what he terms “ teaways ” in both Japan and the United States from the eighteenth century to the present. Each chapter interweaves the history of members of his own family, who exported Japanese tea to Britain and later the United States, with Japanese counterparts, who produced and marketed Japanese tea. But he considers the experiences of many others, from the women who refined the tea to the brokers who sold it and the American wives who purchased it. Throughout it all, he illuminates everything from the gendering of teaways in the United States to the evolving packaging and sale of tea. Overall, Hellyer makes a compelling case for the significance of tea to the economic and cultural history of the United States and Japan. Hellyer ’ s first chapter explores and in
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Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.1017/s1537781422000184
Brian M. Trump
Abstract Digitization of archival materials has made it easier not only to analyze queer history during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, but also to include these sources in the classroom. For instructors interested in incorporating queer history into their classrooms, this piece highlights specific examples of these queer primary sources and what they reveal about the queer past. Focusing specifically on criminal statutes, legal records, newspaper articles, medical discourse, and firsthand accounts, this introduction to queer archival sources emphasizes how these sources can be incorporated into class lectures and discussions, as well as directing attention to where similar examples can be found online in digital archives and databases.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.1017/s1537781422000214
E. Hart
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Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.1017/s1537781422000160
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Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.1017/S1537781422000135
Ángel de Jesús Cortés
Abstract In the history of the Gilded Age and its geopolitics, Henry Adams has a reputation for being an imperialist. While not universally subscribed to by historians, this characterization has waxed sufficiently as to eclipse Adams’s more complex, even contradictory, record on the American Empire. The evidence I will marshal will not prove that Adams was actually an anti-imperialist, but it will reveal the protean nature of Adams’s views of the American Empire. To get a grip on this relatively unexamined aspect of Adams’s thought, I will analyze his correspondence during the last decade of the nineteenth century in which he criticized the extension of American power across the Pacific, particularly in regard to its political economy, religion, and civilization. With the onset of the American Filipino War, Adams raged at the news of American atrocities. This paper shows that Adams’s outrage was part of an incipient civilizational ideology, one that neither materialized into an attachment to the anti-imperialist cause nor accepted the vaunted superiority of the West. Even though Adams possessed no principle to guide his thinking on the empire, his pessimistic evaluation of the extension of American power is enough to reconsider his reputation as an imperialist.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.1017/s1537781422000196
Einav Rabinovitch-Fox
The new HBO series The Gilded Age revolves around a rivalry between “ Old New York, ” represented by the fictional character of Agnes van Rhijn (played by Christine Baranski), and the Russell family, led by George Russell (played by Morgan Spector), who stand in for the era ’ s “ New Rich. ” While business dealings serve as background to the story, the show ’ s main focus is the social intrigues of its women in a world where appearance, etiquette, and social networks capture the audience ’ s attention. Like The Gilded Age , Elizabeth L. Block ’ s Dressing Up puts the women of the era — and their dresses — at the center of its narrative. Block ’ s new book frames the wealthy elites who shaped the Gilded Age economy, culture, and politics as consumers, and focuses on the wives and daughters of elite businessmen and financiers. Such an emphasis allows Block not only to insert women and women ’ s agency more meaningfully into Gilded Age history, but also to explore the economic consequences of the fashion trade. In Block ’ s narrative, elite women were more than a passive manifestation of Thorstein Veblen ’ s “ conspicuous consumption. ” They were active players in a transatlantic network of commerce, power, and privilege that allowed them a position of influence within U.S. society by turning fashion and the dresses they wore into cultural capital. Dressing Up is both a study of the French couture industry and an examination of the role American women played in its development. Block rightly moves away from focusing on couture designers as omnipotent geniuses to focus instead on the social life of garments themselves. This method of “ follow the dresses ” allows her to spotlight the relationships enabled by fashion, bringing labor, gender, space, consumer culture, and performance together into her analysis. Rather than looking at the construction of the garments themselves, Block situates them within a
HBO的新剧《镀金时代》(The Gilded Age)围绕着以虚构人物艾格尼丝·范·莱辛(Agnes van Rhijn，克里斯汀·巴兰斯基饰)为代表的“旧纽约”和以乔治·罗素(George Russell，摩根·斯佩克特饰)为代表的“新富人”罗素家族之间的竞争展开。虽然商业交易是故事的背景，但这部剧的主要焦点是女性在一个外表、礼仪和社交网络吸引观众注意力的世界里的社会阴谋。就像《镀金时代》一样，伊丽莎白·l·布洛克的《盛装打扮》把那个时代的女性——以及她们的服装——放在了叙事的中心。布洛克的新书将塑造镀金时代经济、文化和政治的富有精英视为消费者，并将重点放在精英商人和金融家的妻子和女儿身上。这样的强调使布洛克不仅可以将女性和女性代理更有意义地插入镀金时代的历史，而且还可以探索时尚贸易的经济后果。在布洛克的叙述中，精英女性不仅仅是Thorstein Veblen“炫耀性消费”的被动表现。他们是跨大西洋商业、权力和特权网络的积极参与者，通过将时尚和服饰转化为文化资本，他们在美国社会中占据了影响力地位。《打扮》既是对法国高级定制行业的研究，也是对美国女性在其发展过程中所扮演角色的审视。布洛克正确地从关注时装设计师作为无所不能的天才转向关注服装本身的社会生活。这种“跟随服装”的方法使她能够聚焦时尚所带来的关系，将劳动，性别，空间，消费文化和表演一起纳入她的分析中。Block并没有关注服装本身的结构，而是将它们放在一个
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