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Translating Past to Present

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American West
American West history
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colonial history
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global borders
global frontiers
History
history of linguistics
History of the American West
how historical messages are represented
Indigenous studies
interpretation
interpretation andtranslations
Language Arts &
language policy
Latin American studies
oral history
translation
U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Western American history
Western historians

Product details

  • ISBN 9781496243973
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Oct 2025
  • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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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.
 

About
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.