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The Other Americans in Paris: Businessmen, Countesses, Wayward Youth, 1880-1941
Contributor(s): Green, Nancy L. (Author)

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 ISBN: 0226306887     ISBN-13: 9780226306889
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
OUR PRICE: $103.95  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: July 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe - France
- History | United States - 20th Century
- History | United States - 19th Century
Dewey: 305.813
LCCN: 2013045373
Physical Information: 0.97" H x 6.38" W x 9.3" L (1.31 lbs) 352 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - French
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
 
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Publisher Description:
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.

Contributor Bio(s): Green, Nancy L.: - Nancy L. Green is professor of history at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris.
 
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