Other Americans in Paris

图书信息

作者	Green, Nancy L.
出版社	University of Chicago Press
ISBN	9780226137520
出版时间	2014-07-07
字数	74.8万
分类	University of Chicago Press,进口书,外文原版书,文学,自传,回忆录

读书简介

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 "e;Americanization"e; have deep roots in the twentieth century.

目录

Cover

Copyright

Title Page

Frontispiece

Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

Introduction

1. The Not So Lost Generation: The “American Colony”

2. Uses of Citizenship: Tales from the Consulate, or How Mrs. Baker Got Her Hat Back

3. For Love or Money: Marriage and Divorce in the French Capital

4. Americans at Work: Of Grocers, Fashion Writers, Dentists, and Lawyers

5. Doing Business in France: The Formal and the Informal

6. Down and Out in Paris: The Tailed, the Arrested, and the Poor

7. French Connections, Reciprocal Visions: Love, Hate, Awe, Disdain

8. Heading Home: War, Again

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index