ISBN:
9780226137520
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (326 Seiten)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Green, Nancy L. The Other Americans in Paris : Businessmen, Countesses, Wayward Youth, 1880-1941
DDC:
305.813044/361
Keywords:
Geschichte 1900-2000
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Geschichte 1800-1900
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Geschichte 1900-2000
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Geschichte 1800-1900
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Geschichte 1880-1941
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Geschichte
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Geschichte
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Americans -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century
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Americans -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century
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France -- Civilization -- American influences
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Americans History 19th century
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Americans History 20th century
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Amerikaner
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Gesellschaftsleben
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Alltag
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Frankreich
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Frankreich
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France Civilization
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American influences
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Paris
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Frankreich
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Frankreich
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Amerikaner
;
Gesellschaftsleben
;
Alltag
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Geschichte 1880-1941
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Paris
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Amerikaner
;
Gesellschaftsleben
;
Alltag
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Geschichte 1880-1941
Abstract:
While Gertrude Stein hosted the literati of the Left Bank, Mrs. Bates-Batcheller, an American socialite and concert singer in Paris, held sumptuous receptions for the Daughters of the American Revolution in her suburban villa. 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. Nancy L. Green thus 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 (and poverty for some) 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 tout court and that debates over "Americanization" have deep roots in the twentieth century
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