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Becoming Americans In Paris
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Author : Brooke L. Blower
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011-01-17
Becoming Americans In Paris written by Brooke L. Blower and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-17 with History categories.
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 world and grappled with what it meant to be American in the new century, even as they came up against conflicting interpretations of American power by others. Interwar Paris may have been a capital of the arts, notorious for its pleasures, but it was also smoldering with radical and reactionary plots, suffused with noise, filth, and chaos, teeming with immigrants and refugees, communist rioters, fascism admirers, overzealous police, and obnoxious tourists. Sketching Americans' place in this evocative landscape, Blower shows how arrivals were drawn into the capital's battles, both wittingly and unwittingly. Americans in Paris found themselves on the front lines of an emerging culture of political engagements-a transatlantic matrix of causes and connections, which encompassed debates about "Americanization" and "anti-American" protests during the Sacco-Vanzetti affair as well as a host of other international incidents. Blower carefully depicts how these controversies and a backdrop of polarized European politics honed Americans' political stances and sense of national distinctiveness. A model of urban, transnational history, Becoming Americans in Paris offers a nuanced portrait of how Americans helped to shape the cultural politics of interwar Paris, and, at the same time, how Paris helped to shape modern American political culture.
Americans In Paris
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Author : Charles Glass
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2010
Americans In Paris written by Charles Glass and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Americans categories.
Well-traveled journalist Glass (The Tribes Triumphant, 2006, etc.) reckons with a handful of intrepid Americans who stuck it out in Paris during the Nazi occupation. Of the 30,000 Americans who lived in Paris before World War II, the author estimates that about 5,000 stayed after Germany invaded Poland in 1939, despite warnings to leave by American Ambassador William Bullitt. When the Nazis marched triumphantly through Paris in June 1940, the French premier had fled, essentially leaving Bullitt, who helped convince the Nazis not to bomb the city, in charge. Americans did not have cause to fear the Germans, as the United States would not declare war on Germany for another two years. Jews and blacks, however, were most often deported to camps. The remaining Americans were able to move rather fluidly between the French and German sides, and sometimes their loyalties grew murky and questionable. In alternating chapters that delineate the daily tension of four years in Occupied Paris, Glass pursues some of the notable American characters who congregated at the protected American sites, including Countess Clara Longworth de Chambrun, a Cincinnati heiress married to a French banker (and descendent of the Marquis de Lafayette), who was steadfast in keeping the American Library running during the Occupation; millionaire industrialist Charles Bedaux, who opened his country estate to marvelous collaborationist parties and later faced charges of treason; stalwart Yankee doctor Sumner Jackson, who tended prisoners and wounded at the American Hospital in Neuilly; and Sylvia Beach, American bookseller and publisher of James Joyce, who eventually had to close her seminal Shakespeare and Company store under Nazi threat of confiscation. "Everybody we knew was for resistance," she declared righteously. Most of Glass's tales aren't quite so clear-cut, but they illuminate a dark, fascinating period in World War II history. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
The Greater Journey
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Author : David McCullough
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2011
The Greater Journey written by David McCullough and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
McCullough mixes famous and obscure names and delivers capsule biographies of everyone to produce a colorful parade of educated, Victorian-era American travelers and their life-changing experiences in Paris.
Footprints Of Famous Americans In Paris Classic Reprint
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Author : John Joseph Conway
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2019-01-14
Footprints Of Famous Americans In Paris Classic Reprint written by John Joseph Conway and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Excerpt from Footprints of Famous Americans in Paris There was a very distinguished American wit whose contribution to the sum of his nation's achievement consisted in one sentence which has become historical. Good Americans, said Tom Appleton, when they die go to Paris. Tom Appleton - so called among his intimates - was the Sydney Smith of the Boston society of his day, a big, round-shouldered man with heavy, sombre eyes behind which his audacious humour lay in ambush and enlivened the transcendental seriousness of the Boston of that time. Being only an amateur humorist, he nearly achieved the signal honour of being forgotten in the immortality of his epigram, and it is due to the genial Autocrat Of the Breakfast Table that the name of the man who made a complete character study of his countrymen in eight words has not been forgotten. For, indeed, the end and aim of most Americans for more than a century, whether they could afford it or not, was to go to Paris. Of course, in postponing the time of their visit Tom Appleton exaggerated, as, indeed, all wits do. Still, it was only to point the national aspiration more trenchantly. For it is not too much to say that in those days the stay-at-home Americans were homesick for a sight of the city they had never seen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Americans In Paris
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Author : George Wickes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
Americans In Paris written by George Wickes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with American literature categories.
"America is my country but Paris is my home." So spoke Gertrude Stein, summing up for all time the attraction that Paris held for that legendary group of Americans who lived and worked there during the first four decades of the century. From the arrival of Gertrude Stein in 1903 to Henry Miller's departure in 1939, this brilliant group included Virgil Thomson, Man Ray, Ernest Hemingway and E. E. Cummings. In an atmosphere saturated with creation and the classical spirit of France, each member of this extra-ordinary group responded differently to the creative opportunities Paris offered. George Wickes shows the results of these influences through the individual works of literature, art and music produced by these men and women while in Paris. AMERICANS IN PARIS is filled with new detail and observation by an author who himself has tasted the intoxicating atmosphere of the City of Light that so pervades the works of this company of America's most colorful artistic geniuses. Born in Belgium and raised in New York state, George Wickes has often been an American in Paris, and spent considerable time in other parts of the world, including a wartime tour of duty with the O.S.S. in Southeast Asia. He is a contributor to such journals as Shenandoah, The New Republic, and The Paris Review and has produced books dealing with other members of the literary scene, including Lawrence Durrell, Henry Miller and Aldous Huxley. Mr. Wickes lives with his family in Southern California where he teaches modern literature at Harvey Mudd College of the Claremont Colleges of Southern California.
The First Expatriates
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Author : Yvon Bizardel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
The First Expatriates written by Yvon Bizardel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with History categories.
Paris By The Book
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Author : Liam Callanan
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2018-04-03
Paris By The Book written by Liam Callanan and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-03 with Fiction categories.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A missing person, a grieving family, a curious clue: a half-finished manuscript set in Paris Once a week, I chase men who are not my husband. . . . When eccentric novelist Robert Eady abruptly vanishes, he leaves behind his wife, Leah, their daughters, and, hidden in an unexpected spot, plane tickets to Paris. Hoping to uncover clues--and her husband--Leah sets off for France with her girls. Upon their arrival, she discovers an unfinished manuscript, one Robert had been writing without her knowledge . . . and that he had set in Paris. The Eady girls follow the path of the manuscript to a small, floundering English-language bookstore whose weary proprietor is eager to sell. Leah finds herself accepting the offer on the spot. As the family settles into their new Parisian life, they trace the literary paths of some beloved Parisian classics, including Madeline and The Red Balloon, hoping more clues arise. But a series of startling discoveries forces Leah to consider that she may not be ready for what solving this mystery might do to her family--and the Paris she thought she knew. Charming, haunting, and triumphant, Paris by the Book follows one woman's journey as she writes her own story, exploring the power of family and the magic that hides within the pages of a book.
How Paris Became Paris
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Author : Joan DeJean
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2014-03-04
How Paris Became Paris written by Joan DeJean and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-04 with History categories.
"This lively history charts the growth of Paris from a city of crowded alleyways and irregular buildings into a modern marvel."--New Yorker At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Paris was known for isolated monuments but had not yet put its brand on urban space. Like other European cities, it was still emerging from its medieval past. But in a mere century Paris would be transformed into the modern and mythic city we know today. Though most people associate the signature characteristics of Paris with the public works of the nineteenth century, Joan DeJean demonstrates that the Parisian model for urban space was in fact invented two centuries earlier, when the first complete design for the French capital was drawn up and implemented. As a result, Paris saw many changes. It became the first city to tear down its fortifications, inviting people in rather than keeping them out. Parisian urban planning showcased new kinds of streets, including the original boulevard, as well as public parks and the earliest sidewalks and bridges without houses. Venues opened for urban entertainment of all kinds, from opera and ballet to a pastime invented in Paris, recreational shopping. Parisians enjoyed the earliest public transportation and street lighting, and Paris became Europe's first great walking city. A century of planned development made Paris both beautiful and exciting. It gave people reasons to be out in public as never before and as nowhere else. And it gave Paris its modern identity as a place that people dreamed of seeing. By 1700, Paris had become the capital that would revolutionize our conception of the city and of urban life.
The American In Paris Vol I
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Author : John Sanderson
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-07-11
The American In Paris Vol I written by John Sanderson and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-11 with categories.
The American in Paris - Vol. I by John Sanderson (Two volumes.) Sketches of Paris and French people: In Familiar Letters to His Friends. An account of the teacher and writer's experiences and perceptions of France, where he had traveled for health reasons in 1835. Noted for its astute and striking descriptions, it became popular in the United States, is published in London as The American in Paris (1838), and would be later translated into French by Jules Janin. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
The Other Americans In Paris
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Author : Nancy L. Green
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2014-07-07
The Other Americans In Paris written by Nancy L. Green and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-07 with Social Science categories.
A “thorough and perceptive” portrait of the not-so-famous expatriates of the City of Light (The Wall Street Journal). History may remember the American artists, writers, and musicians of the Left Bank best, but the reality is that there were many more American businessmen, socialites, manufacturers’ representatives, and lawyers living on the other side of the River Seine. Be they newly minted American countesses married to foreigners with impressive titles or American soldiers who had settled in France after World War I with their French wives, they provide a new view of the notion of expatriates. Historian Nancy L. Green introduces us for the first time to a long-forgotten part of the American overseas population—predecessors to today’s expats—while exploring the politics of citizenship and the business relationships, love lives, and wealth (or in some cases, poverty) of Americans who staked their claim to the City of Light. The Other Americans in Paris shows that elite migration is a part of migration, and that debates over Americanization have deep roots in the twentieth century.