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3. The training of dragomans4. The contribution of translation practices to the construction of cultures; Chapter 5. Theoretical sketch of a Habsburg translational space; Chapter 6. "Promptly, any time of day": The private translation sector; 1. Commercial translation and its institutionalization; 2. Battling for positions in the commercial translation sector; Chapter 7. "Profiting the life of the mind": Translation policy in the Habsburg Monarchy; 1. Factors regulating translation policy; Censorship; Copyright; Bookseller licensing; 2. State promotion of culture and literature.

"The history of translation has focused on literary work but this book demonstrates the way in which political control can influence and be influenced by translation choices. In this book, new research and specially commissioned essays give access to existing research projects which at present are either scattered or unavailable in English"--

In the fascist regimes of the mid twentieth century - this volume the focuses on Italy, Germany, Spain and Portugal - translation was a carefully, though not always successfully, managed cultural practice. Translation policies attempted to steer public perceptions and promote or brake ideological change. Translation Under Fascism€examines translation practices under fascism within their historical context - from publishers' biographies, institutional constraints and long-term literary trends right down to the textual choices made by translators and editors in individual translations. All these aspects of a translation analysis allow insight into the workings of international cultural exchange in times of dictatorship, and are of interest equally to translation scholars and historians of culture in the periods concerned. The spectrum of translation policies and practices presented here indicates different paradigms, different obsessions and different institutional frameworks, but also shared rhetorical motifs such as the ideas of translation as a cultural weapon and translation as a form of cultural contamination.

This is the most comprehensive account to date of literary politics in Nazi Germany and of the institutions, organizations and people who controlled German literature during the Third Reich. Barbian details a media dictatorship-involving the persecution and control of writers, publishers and libraries, but also voluntary assimilation and pre-emptive self-censorship-that began almost immediately under the National Socialists, leading to authors' forced declarations of loyalty, literary propaganda, censorship, and book burnings. Special attention is given to Nazi regulation of the publishing ind