Extent:
xi, 333 Seiten
Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
23 cm
Type of publication: Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories): Aufsatzsammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Sammelwerk ; Collection of articles of several authors ; Konferenzschrift ; Conference proceedings
Language: English
Notes:
Enth. 10 Beitr.
Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Europe Materializing? Toward a Transnational History of European Infrastructures--A.Badenoch&--A.Fickers -- PART I: QUESTIONING THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN INFRASTRUCTURES AND EUROPE -- Detours around Africa: The Connection between Developing Colonies and Integrating Europe--D.van Laak -- Interlude 1: The Oliven Plan: the Long Life of Non-existent Network--V.Lagendijk -- Myths of the European network: Constructions of Cohesion in Infrastructure Maps--A.Badenoch -- Interlude 2: David Mitrany and Ernst Haas: Theorising a United Europe--W.Zaidi -- Transnational infrastructures and the origins of European integration; J.Schot -- PART II: MEDIATING EUROPE: MOVING THINGS, BUILDING SYSTEMS -- Universalism or Regionalism? The Work of the Advisory and Technical Committee for Communications and Transit of the League of Nations--F.Schipper, V.Lagendijk&--I.Anastasiadou -- Interlude 3: Louis Armand between United Atoms and Common Railways--C.Henrich-Franke -- Feeding the Peoples of Europe: Transport Infrastructures and the Building of Transnational Cooling Chains in the Early Cold War, 1947-1960--E.van der Vleuten -- Interlude 4: Mobilizing Europe's capital--F.Schipper -- Eurocheque: Creating a 'common currency'. European Infrastructures for the Cashless Mass Payments System--B.Bonhage -- Interlude 5: Georges Valensi, Europe Calling?--L.Laborie -- Off the leash. The European Mobile Phone Standard (GSM) as a Transnational Telecommunications Infrastructure--P.Kammerer -- PART III: EUROPE BETWEEN PROJECTS AND PROJECTIONS -- Eventing Europe: Broadcasting and the mediated performances of Europe--A.Fickers&--S.Lommers -- Interlude 6: The Radio Station Scale: a Materialized European Event--A.Fickers -- From Sea to Shining Sea: Making Ends Meet on European Rivers--C.Disco -- Interlude 6: Peaceful Atom: the Brief Career of a Symbol of Cooperation and Prosperity--D.van Lente -- European Civil Aviation in an Era of Hegemonic Nationalism: Infrastructure, Air Mobility, and European Identity Formation, 1919-1933--E.Kranakis.
ISBN: 978-0-230-23289-1 ; 0-230-23289-2 ; 978-1-349-31313-6 ; 978-0-230-29231-4
Classification: Europapolitik, Europäische Union ; Regionalwirtschaft
Source:
ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013481128