Badenoch, Alexander (Editor)
Fickers, Andreas (Editor)
Palgrave Macmillan
Pages: 333
Publication date: 2010
Language: English
Physical Details: xi + 333 pp.; ill.; maps
This collection looks at transnational infrastructures, from the first ceremonial train of the European Coal and Steel Community to the new border signs replacing checkpoints along motorways, and how such infrastructural links are part of the long history of European unification. (Publisher)
...MoreDescription 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. (From WorldCat)
Chapter Lagendijk, Vincent (2010) Biography 1: An electrifying legacy: The long life of the Oliven Plan. In: Materializing Europe: Transnational infrastructures and the project of Europe (pp. 44-46).
Chapter Lagendijk, Vincent (2010) New connections for an old continent: Rail, road, and electricity in the league of Nations' Organisation for communications and transit. In: Materializing Europe: Transnational infrastructures and the project of Europe (pp. 113-143).
Chapter Vleuten, Erik van der (2010) Feeding the peoples of Europe: Transport infrastructures and the building of transnational cold chains in the early Cold War, 1947--1960. In: Materializing Europe: Transnational infrastructures and the project of Europe (pp. 148-177).
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