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Electrifying Europe : the power of Europe in the construction of electricity networks /

Combining a wide array of rarely used sources, this book unravels how engineers, industrialists, and policymakers gained support for building an interconnected European system, achieved by 1995. The empirical chapters show how ideas of European cooperation in general became intertwined with network...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lagendijk, Vincent
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Aksant, 2008.
Colección:Technology and European history series ; 2.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Combining a wide array of rarely used sources, this book unravels how engineers, industrialists, and policymakers gained support for building an interconnected European system, achieved by 1995. The empirical chapters show how ideas of European cooperation in general became intertwined with network planning during the Interwar period, although the Depression and WWII prevented an European network from being constructed. The subsequent chapters describe the influence of the Marshall Plan on European network-building, focusing on both its economic and military aspects. The last chapter portrays.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (246 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9789048521203
9048521203
1283259648
9781283259644
9786613259646
6613259640