{"product_id":"translating-america-peter-conolly-smith-9781588342874","title":"Translating America: An Ethnic Press and Popular Culture, 1890-1920","description":"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 been that, in the face of persecution and repression during World War I, German immigrants quickly gave up their own culture and assimilated into American mainstream life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut in \u003ci\u003eTranslating America\u003c\/i\u003e, Peter Conolly-Smith offers a radically different analysis. He argues that German immigrants became German-Americans not out of fear, but instead through their participation in the emerging forms of pop culture. Drawing from German and English newspapers, editorials, comic strips, silent movies, and popular plays, he reveals that German culture did not disappear overnight, but instead merged with new forms of American popular culture before the outbreak of the war. Vaudeville theaters, D.W. Griffith movies, John Philip Sousa tunes, and even baseball games all contributed to German immigrants' willing transformation into Americans. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTranslating America\u003c\/i\u003e tackles one of the thorniest questions in American history: How do immigrants assimilate into, and transform, American culture?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Conolly-Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1588342875\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781588342874\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Smithsonian Books (DC)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/06\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 424\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.95d","brand":"Peter Conolly-Smith","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46721332347135,"sku":"9781588342874","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bb36103d-a4bb-444d-9ec9-216b92ce43ff.jpg?v=1742752546","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/translating-america-peter-conolly-smith-9781588342874","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}