Iron Landscapes
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Iron Landscapes

National Space and the Railways in Interwar Czechoslovakia

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Iron Landscapes

National Space and the Railways in Interwar Czechoslovakia

About this book

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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Information

Year
2021
Print ISBN
9781789207767
eBook ISBN
9781789207774

Table of contents

  1. Iron Landscapes
  2. Contents
  3. Illustrations
  4. Abbreviations
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1. Forging a Nation from the Tracks
  7. Chapter 2. The Heart of Europe and Its Periphery
  8. Chapter 3. ‘German Territories’ or ‘Pure German Soil’?
  9. Chapter 4. Stations between the National and the Cosmopolitan
  10. Chapter 5. ‘Bratislava to Prague in 4h 51min’
  11. Conclusion
  12. Appendix. Tables
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index