Americans often look back on Paris between the world wars as a charming escape from the enduring inequalities and reactionary politics of the United States. In this bold and original study, Brooke Blower shows that nothing could be further from the truth. She reveals the breadth of American activities in the capital, the lessons visitors drew from their stay, and the passionate responses they elicited from others. For many sojourners-not just for the most famous expatriate artists and writers- Paris served as an important crossroads, a place where Americans reimagined their position in the...
Americans often look back on Paris between the world wars as a charming escape from the enduring inequalities and reactionary politics of the United S...
In The Familiar Made Strange, twelve distinguished historians offer original and playful readings of American icons and artifacts that cut across rather than stop at the nation's borders to model new interpretive approaches to studying United States history. These leading practitioners of the "transnational turn" pause to consider such famous icons as John Singleton Copley s painting Watson and the Shark, Alfred Eisenstaedt s photograph V-J Day, 1945, Times Square, and Alfred Kinsey s reports on sexual behavior, as well as more surprising but revealing artifacts...
In The Familiar Made Strange, twelve distinguished historians offer original and playful readings of American icons and artifacts that cut...
In The Familiar Made Strange, twelve distinguished historians offer original and playful readings of American icons and artifacts that cut across rather than stop at the nation's borders to model new interpretive approaches to studying United States history. These leading practitioners of the "transnational turn" pause to consider such famous icons as John Singleton Copley s painting Watson and the Shark, Alfred Eisenstaedt s photograph V-J Day, 1945, Times Square, and Alfred Kinsey s reports on sexual behavior, as well as more surprising but revealing artifacts...
In The Familiar Made Strange, twelve distinguished historians offer original and playful readings of American icons and artifacts that cut...
