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European coasts of Bohemia : negotiating the Danube-Oder-Elbe canal in a troubled twentieth century / Jiři Janáč.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Janáč, Jiří, 1978- author.
- Series:
- Technology and European history series ; 9.
- Technology and European history series ; 9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Canals--Czech Republic--Bohemia--History.
- Canals.
- Canals--Danube River--History.
- Canals--Oder River--History.
- Canals--Elbe River (Czech Republic and Germany)--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- Text in English
- Summary:
- The Danube-Oder-Elbe Canal promised to create an integrated waterway system across Europe, linking Black Sea ports to Atlantic markets and giving landlocked Czech nation its own connections to the ocean. The fascinating history of this never-completed project, 'European Coasts of Bohemia' tells the story of the experts who confronted and contributed to different and often conflicting geopolitical visions of Europe. Jirí Janác shows how the canal-backers adapted themselves to various political developments, such as the break-up of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire and the integration into the Soviet Bloc, while still managing to keep the canal project alive.
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Mittel-Europeanization on waterways
- 3. Canal as artery for Nazi expansion
- 4. Linking the Soviet Volga ; not the Rhine!
- 5. Mastering three seas
- 6. Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Dec 2020).
- Includes bibliographical references.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0https://www.aup.nl/en/publish/open-access
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed October 02 2025)
- ISBN:
- 1-003-69504-3
- 1-04-078378-3
- 90-485-1812-1
- 9781003695042
- OCLC:
- 834604353
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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