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Materializing Europe : transnational infrastructures and the project of Europe / edited by Alexander Badenoch and Andreas Fickers.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Infrastructure (Economics)--Europe.
- Infrastructure (Economics).
- Europe.
- Europe--Economic integration.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 333 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction: Europe materializing? toward a transnational history of European infrastructures / Alexander Badenoch and Andreas Fickers
- Part I: Questioning the Connections between infrastructures and Europe: 1. Detours around Africa: the connection between developing colonies and integrating Europe / Dirk van Laak; Biography 1. An electrifying legacy: the long life of the Oliven Plan / Vincent Lagendijk; 2. Myths of the European network: constructions of cohesion in infrastructure maps / Alexander Badenoch; Biography 2. David Mitrany and Ernst Haas: theorizing a united Europe / Waqar Zaidi; 3. Transnational infrastructures and the origins of European integration / Johan Schot
- Part II: Mediating Europe: moving things, building systems: 4. New connections for an old continent: rail, road and electricity in the League of Nations Organisation for communication and transit / Frank Schipper, Vincent Lagendijk, and Irene Anastasiadou; Biography 3. Louis Armand- between united atoms and common railways / Christian Henrich-Franke; 5. 'Feeding the peoples of Europe': transnational food transport Infrastructures in the early Cold War, 1947-1960 / Erik van der Vleuten; Biography 4. Mobilizing Europe's capital / Frank Schipper; 6. Eurocheque: creating a 'common currency'. European infrastructures for the cashless mass payments system / Barbara Bonhage; Biography 5. Georges Valensi: Europe calling? / Leonard Laborie; 7. Off the leash. the European mobile phone standard (GSM) as a transnational telecommunications infrastructure / Patrick Kammerer
- Part III: Europe between projects and projections: 8. Eventing Europe: broadcasting and the mediated performances of Europe / AndreasFickers and Suzanne Lommers; Biography 6. The radio station scale: a materialized European event / Andreas Fickers; 9. From sea to shining sea: making ends meet on the Rhine and the Rhone / Cornelis Disco; Biography 6. Peaceful atom: the brief career of a symbol of co-operation and prosperity / Dick van Lente; 10. European civil aviation in an era of hegemonic nationalism: infrastructure, air mobility, and European identity formation, 1919-1933 / Eda Kranakis.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780230292314
- 0230292313
- Publisher Number:
- 99985761399
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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