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- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume II
- General Introduction: What is America and the World?
- Introduction to Volume II
- Part I Building and Resisting US Empire
- Part II Imperial Structures
- Part III Americans and the World
- 16 Foreign Relations between Indigenous Polities, 1820–1900
- 17 Immigration Policy and International Relations before 1924
- 18 The Antislavery International
- 19 American Missionaries in the World
- 20 Mobilities: Travel, Expatriation, and Tourism
- 21 Colonial Intimacies in US Empire
- 22 Flowers for Washington: Cultural Production, Consumption, and the United States in the World
- Part IV Americans in the World
- Index
22 - Flowers for Washington: Cultural Production, Consumption, and the United States in the World
from Part III - Americans and the World
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 November 2021
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume II
- General Introduction: What is America and the World?
- Introduction to Volume II
- Part I Building and Resisting US Empire
- Part II Imperial Structures
- Part III Americans and the World
- 16 Foreign Relations between Indigenous Polities, 1820–1900
- 17 Immigration Policy and International Relations before 1924
- 18 The Antislavery International
- 19 American Missionaries in the World
- 20 Mobilities: Travel, Expatriation, and Tourism
- 21 Colonial Intimacies in US Empire
- 22 Flowers for Washington: Cultural Production, Consumption, and the United States in the World
- Part IV Americans in the World
- Index
Summary
Here one way to bookend the nineteenth century that reveals the changing position of the United States in the world: the century began with the 1814 burning of the White House and the ignominious fleeing of the president from the still mosquito-ridden District of Columbia. It ended with the 1912 planting of flowering Japanese cherry trees within a short walk of the White House. The flickering flames of 1814 were a reminder that the new nation was not so isolated as some might have wanted to believe. A century later, the perfume of those cherry trees provided scented evidence of the consumerist fascination with foreign places, products, and peoples.
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- The Cambridge History of America and the World , pp. 521 - 544Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022