Translating Past to Present: Interpreters in the American West and Beyond by Offenburger, Andrew

Translating Past to Present: Interpreters in the American West and Beyond (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781496243416)

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Translating Past to Present: Interpreters in the American West and Beyond by Offenburger, Andrew

Translating Past to Present: Interpreters in the American West and Beyond

$99.00
Translating Past to Present: Interpreters in the American West and Beyond by Offenburger, Andrew

Translating Past to Present: Interpreters in the American West and Beyond

$99.00
Format: Hardcover
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The act of interpretation has been central to Western American history. At every historical juncture, interpreters were active and present--conveying meaning between people speaking mutually unintelligible languages, bartering for goods and power along borders, and translating intentions from gestures, acts, and words. While research on interpreters within zones of cultural exchange has grown among scholars of early modern Europe and Asia, the historiography of interpreters of the American West remains deficient.

Translating Past to Present offers a new perspective on the historical significance of interpretation and translation. This collection explores how the current sparse historiography relates to a lack of transparency about interpretive acts, both in historical and contemporary practices, and calls attention to the subjectivity of interpretive acts and historians' role in shaping how historical messages are represented. By summoning interpreters from the margins of history, Translating Past to Present spans broad geographies and chronologies to provide a long-overdue examination of the practices of interpretation in the American West.


Author: Andrew Offenburger
ISBN-10: 1496243412
ISBN-13: 9781496243416
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2025
Pages: 290
Format: Hardcover
By Andrew Offenburger
By Andrew Offenburger
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Andrew Offenburger is an associate professor of history at Miami University. He is the author of Frontiers in the Gilded Age: Adventure, Capitalism, and Dispossession from Southern Africa to the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, 1880-1917 and editor of The Aimless Life: Music, Mines, and Revolution from the Rocky Mountains to Mexico (Bison, 2021). Patricia Nelson Limerick is a professor of history and director of the Applied History Initiative at the University of Colorado. She is the author of Desert Passages: Encounters with the American Deserts, The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West, and Something in the Soil: Legacies and Reckonings in the New West.

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