Steamboat Modernity : Travel, Transport, and Social Transformation on the Lower Danube, 1830-1860.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ardeleanu, Constantin.

Contributor:

Opening the Future, Funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

River steamers--Lower Danube River--History--19th century.

River steamers.

Romanians--Travel.

Romanians.

Travelers--Romania--History--19th century.

Travelers.

Lower Danube River--History--19th century.

Lower Danube River.

Lower Danube River Valley--History--19th century.

Lower Danube River Valley.

Danube River Valley--Description and travel.

Danube River Valley.

Danube River Valley--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Budapest : Central European University Press, 2024.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Ardeleanu Constantin : Constantin Ardeleanu is a senior researcher at the Institute of South-East European Studies of the Romanian Academy and at the New Europe College - Institute for Advanced Study in Bucharest.

Summary:

Through a skillful combination of economic and cultural history, this book describes the impact on Moldavia and Wallachia of steam navigation on the Danube. The Danube route integrated the two principalities into a dense network of European roads and waterways. From the 1830s to the 1860s, steamboat transport transformed time and space for the areas that benefited from regular services. River traffic accelerated urban development along the Lower Danube and contributed directly to institutional modernization in one of Europe’s peripheries. Beyond technological advances and the transportation of goods on a trans-imperial waterway, steamboat travel revolutionized human interactions, too. The book offers a fascinating insight into the social and cultural milieu of the nineteenth century, drawing on first-hand accounts of Danube cruising. Describing the story of travelers who interacted, met, and visited the places they stopped, Constantin Ardeleanu creates a transnational history of travel up and down the Danube from Vienna to Constantinople. The pleasures and sometimes the travails of the travelers unfold against a backdrop of technical and economic transformation in the crucial period of modernization.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction “The Character of Our Age”

Chapter 1 A Cruise between Civilizations

Chapter 2 A Floating City

Chapter 3 Between the Orient and Russia

Chapter 4 The Romanians in Europe

Chapter 5 Travels and Epidemics

Chapter 6 Nature and Technolog y at the Iron Gates

Conclusions

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-003-72208-3

963-386-754-1

9781003722083

OCLC:

1422877562