Translating America
An Ethnic Press and Popular Culture, 1890-1920
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- Paperback
424 pages
- Release Date
6 July 2010
Summary
The German population has ceased to exist 50 years after the turn of the century. In Translating America, Peter Conolly-Smith suggests that German immigrants became German-Americans, not out of fear, but rather do to pop culture.At the turn of the century, New York City’s Germans constituted a culturally and politically dynamic community, with a population 600,000 strong. Yet fifty years later, traces of its culture had all but disappeared. What happened? The conventional interpretation has b…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781588342874 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1588342875 |
| Author: | Peter Conolly-Smith |
| Publisher: | Smithsonian Books |
| Imprint: | Smithsonian Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 424 |
| Release Date: | 6 July 2010 |
| Weight: | 578g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 24mm |
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“Peter Conolly-Smith offers a rare and fascinating look at the rise and fall of an urban ethnic culture in early twentieth-century New York. Translating America returns us to a moment on the eve of the First World War, when the press, the politicians, and the impresarios vied fiercely for the cultural loyalties of German-Americans. The story he tells revisits and revises the surprising consequences of that struggle.”—Jean-Christophe Agnew, Yale University“Translating America is cultural history at its best. What results from painstaking research and most impressive detective work is a complete reconstruction of the cultural moment of World War I in New York. This is an important contribution to American studies in a comparative perspective. Although the word is never mentioned, Translating America does what ‘multiculturalism’ should have been doing all along.”—Werner Sollors, Harvard University
About The Author
Peter Conolly-Smith
Peter Conolly-Smith holds a Ph.D. in American studies from Yale University. He is an assistant professor of history at Union County College in New Jersey and lives in New York City.
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