European coasts of Bohemia : negotiating the Danube-Oder-Elbe Canal in a troubled twentieth century /

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The Danube-Oder-Elbe Canal promised to create an integrated waterway system across Europe, linking Black Sea ports to Atlantic markets and giving landlocked Czech nation its own connections to the ocean. The fascinating history of this never-completed project, European Coasts of Bohemia tells the st...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Janáč, Jiří
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2012.
Colección:Amsterdam University Press - Technology and European History.
Temas:
Canals > Czech Republic > Bohemia > History.
Canals > Danube River > History.
Canals > Oder River > History.
Canals > Elbe River (Czech Republic and Germany) > History.
Canaux > République tchèque > Bohême > Histoire.
Canaux > Danube (Fleuve) > Histoire.
Canaux > Oder (Fleuve) > Histoire.
Canaux > Elbe (République tchèque et Allemagne : Fleuve) > Histoire.
History.
History: specific events and topics.
Humanities.
Industrialisation and industrial history.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Reference.
HISTORY > General.
Canals
Czech Republic > Bohemia
Danube River
Europe > Elbe River
Europe > Oder River
Geschiedenis
History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Mittel-Europeanization on waterways
  • 3. Canal as artery for Nazi expansion
  • 4. Linking the Soviet Volga ; not the Rhine!
  • 5. Mastering three seas
  • 6. Conclusion.
  • 1. Introduction
  • Infrastructure Historiography
  • Canal as a Laboratory of Europe
  • 2. Mittel-Europeanization on Waterways
  • On Mittel-Europeanization
  • Building Mitteleuropa on Waterways before Versailles
  • De-Austrianization: Shaping the Czechoslovak State
  • Mittel-Europeanization beyond the State?
  • 3. Canal as Artery for Nazi Expansion
  • On Nazification
  • Constructing the Grossraum
  • From Grand Opening to Inauspicious End
  • 4. Linking the Soviet Volga; not the Rhine!
  • On Sovietization
  • Projecting a Soviet Canal
  • Sovietization "Beyond the State"
  • The Final Plan
  • 5. Mastering Three Seas
  • On Europeanization
  • Across the Curtain
  • Europeanization of the Canal Design
  • Canalizing Europe
  • 6. Conclusion.

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