{"product_id":"translating-past-to-present-interpreters-in-the-american-west-and-beyond-9781496243973","title":"Translating Past to Present: Interpreters in the American West and Beyond","description":"\u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTranslating Past to Present\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eTranslating Past to Present\u003c\/i\u003e spans broad geographies and chronologies to provide a long-overdue examination of the practices of interpretation in the American West. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Offenburger\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor of history at Miami University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eFrontiers in the Gilded Age: Adventure, Capitalism, and Dispossession from Southern Africa to the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, 1880-1917\u003c\/i\u003e and editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Aimless Life: Music, Mines, and Revolution from the Rocky Mountains to Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e (Bison Books, 2021). \u003cb\u003ePatricia Nelson Limerick\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of history and director of the Applied History Initiative at the University of Colorado. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eDesert Passages: Encounters with the American Deserts\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSomething in the Soil: Legacies and Reckonings in the New West\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51777281130770,"sku":"9781496243973","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2ac0564f-d428-4a00-ad69-d4d3d0a062ad.jpg?v=1765358973","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/translating-past-to-present-interpreters-in-the-american-west-and-beyond-9781496243973","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}