Translations In Times of Disruption

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction: Translations in Times of Disruption

   • David Hook, Graciela Iglesias-Rogers

   Pages 1-19

3. Can Constitutions Be Translated? The Case of the Cadiz Constitution in German

   • Horst Dippel

   Pages 21-43

4. From Philos Hispaniae to Karl Marx: The First English Translation of a Liberal Codex

   • Graciela Iglesias-Rogers

   Pages 45-73

5. Distant Disruption: Some Italian Editions of the Costituzione Politica Della Monarchia Spagnuola and Their Significance

   • David Hook

   Pages 75-99

6. Translating into Stone: The Monument to the Constitution of Cadiz in Saint Augustine, Florida

   • Matthew C. Mirow

   Pages 101-117

7. Translating the US Constitution for the Federal Cause in New Granada at the Time of Independence

   • Eduardo Posada-Carbó

   Pages 119-145

8. Translations of Medical Texts of the Habsburg Monarchy in the Long Eighteenth Century

   • Teodora Daniela Sechel

   Pages 147-171

9. Translation, Interpretation and the Danish Conquest of England, 1016

   • Emily A. Winkler

   Pages 173-200

10. ‘A True Translation’: Translation as a Weapon in the Peninsular War (1808–1814)

    • Alicia Laspra-Rodríguez

    Pages 201-231

11. Anglo-Spanish Transfers in Peninsular War Poetry (1808–1814): Translating and Zero-Translating

    • Agustín Coletes-Blanco

    Pages 233-256

12. Globalization and the Translation of Minority Languages in Film Subtitling

    • Gemma Martínez-Garrido

    Pages 257-274

13. Resistance to the Original: Polish Translation at the Turn of 1989

    • Kasia Szymanska

    Pages 275-303

14. Back Matter

    Pages 305-315

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This book throws light on the relevance and role played by translations and translators at times of serious discontinuity throughout history. Topics explored by scholars from different continents and disciplines include war, the disintegration of transnational polities, health disasters and revolutions - be they political, social, cultural and/or technological. Surprisingly little is known, for example, about the role that translated constitutions had in instigating and in shaping political crises at both a local and global level, and how these events had an effect on translations themselves. Similarly, the role that translations played as instruments for either building or undermining empires, and the extent to which interpreters could ease or hamper negotiations and foster new national identities has not been adequately acknowledged. This book addresses all these issues, among others, through twelve studies focused not just on texts but also on instances of verbal and non-verbal communications in a range of languages from around the world. This interdisciplinary work will engage scholars working in fields such as Translation Studies, History, Modern Languages, English, Law, Politics and Social Studies.

• crises
• pragmatic translation
• transnational history
• translatability
• untranslatability
• appropriation
• retranslation
• multilingualism
• literary translation
• translation studies

“This collection offers a magnificent overview of translation as a mechanism of interpretation and mediation between the transnational world of ideas and practices, and conflictive local circumstances. Essential reading not only to specialists in translation theory but also to historians working in the booming fields of global and transnational history.” (Dr. Eduardo Zimmermann, Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina.)

“This collection of essays, produced by a number of well-established scholars as well as promising younger researchers from different countries and disciplines (history, law, medicine, etc.), explores the crucial role played by translators of diverse non-literary texts as agents of history. The result is a wide-ranging, compelling and engaging volume.” (Dr. Francisco J. Romero Salvadó, University of Bristol, UK)

“A magnificent collection of essays that prove the worth of translation as a tool for interdisciplinary research. Readers will find in this truly engaging volume a trove of well-researched material, which demonstrates how a translated text can influence, condition or even determine how we look at history and society.” (Dr. Javier Muñoz-Basols, University of Oxford, UK)

• Faculty of Medieval & Modern Languages, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  David Hook

• Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, University of Winchester, Winchester, United Kingdom

  Graciela Iglesias-Rogers

David Hook is Faculty Research Fellow at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages of the University of Oxford. He is an active and eminent scholar; a volume of essays in his honour was published by the Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, New York, in November 2013.

Graciela Iglesias-Rogers is Senior Lecturer in Modern European and Global Hispanic History at the University of Winchester and Associate Lecturer in Modern European and Latin American History at the Faculty of History, University of Oxford. She is also a former Reuters fellow with a long career as a leading foreign correspondent.

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