Materializing Europe : transnational infrastructures and the project of Europe
This book explores the relationships between European integration and material infrastructures. Taking transnational infrastructures as the focal point of study, the book focuses on the various forms of mediation between the material, institutional and discursive levels of European integration and f...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Basingstoke New York : Palgrave Macmillan,
2010
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| Schlagworte: | World history |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (340 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | This book explores the relationships between European integration and material infrastructures. Taking transnational infrastructures as the focal point of study, the book focuses on the various forms of mediation between the material, institutional and discursive levels of European integration and fragmentation in a truly transnational perspective. Introduction: Europe Materializing? Toward a Transnational History of European Infrastructures -- Part I Questioning the Connections between Infrastructures and Europe -- 1. Detours around Africa: The Connection between Developing Colonies and Integrating Europe -- Biography 1: An Electrifying Legacy: The Long Life of the Oliven Plan -- 2. Myths of the European Network: Constructions of Cohesion in Infrastructure Maps -- Biography 2: David Mitrany and Ernst Haas: Theorizing a United Europe -- 3. Transnational Infrastructures and the Origins of European Integration -- 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 Communications and Transit -- Biography 3: Louis Armand - Between United Atoms and Common Railways -- 5. 'Feeding the peoples of Europe': Transnational Food Transport Infrastructure in the Early Cold War, 1947-1960 -- Biography 4: Mobilizing Europe's Capital -- 6. Eurocheque: Creating a 'Common Currency' European Infrastructure for the Cashless Mass Payments System -- Biography 5: Georges Valensi: Europe Calling? -- 7. Off the Leash. The European Mobile Phone Standard (GSM) as a Transnational Telecommunications Infrastructure -- Part III Europe between Projects and Projections -- 8. Eventing Europe: Broadcasting and the Mediated Performances of Europe -- Biography 6: The Radio Station Scale: A Materialized European Event -- 9. From Sea to Shining Sea. Making Ends Meet on the Rhine and the Rhone -- Biography 7: Peaceful Atom: The Brief Career of a Symbol of Co-operation and Prosperity. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (340 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780230292314 0230292313 9780230232891 0230232892 |