Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 496 g
Reihe: Explorations in Mobility
National Space and the Railways in Interwar Czechoslovakia
Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 496 g
Reihe: Explorations in Mobility
ISBN: 978-1-78920-776-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the newly formed country of Czechoslovakia built an ambitious national rail network out of what remained of the obsolete Habsburg system. While conceived as a means of knitting together a young and ethnically diverse nation-state, these railways were by their very nature a transnational phenomenon, and as such they simultaneously articulated and embodied a distinctive Czechoslovak cosmopolitanism. Drawing on evidence ranging from government documents to newsreels to train timetables, Iron Landscapes gives a nuanced account of how planners and authorities balanced these two imperatives, bringing the cultural history of infrastructure into dialogue with the spatial history of Central Europe.
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List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Iron Landscapes
Chapter 1. Forging a Nation from the Tracks: Railway Construction and Representation in Interwar Czechoslovakia
Chapter 2. The Heart of Europe and its Periphery: Travelling and Travel Writing
Chapter 3. ‘Germanized Territories’ or ‘Pure German Soil’? The National Conflict on the Railways
Chapter 4. Stations between the National and the Cosmopolitan: Railway Buildings and De-Austrianization
Chapter 5. ‘Bratislava to Prague in 4h 51min’: Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism and the Slovenská strela
Conclusion
Appendix: Tables: Nationality Statistics of Czechoslovak Railway Workers in 1923
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