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Iron landscapes : national space and the railways in interwar Czechoslovakia /
"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 ve...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn,
2021.
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| Colección: | Explorations in mobility ;
v. 5. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 221 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781789207774 1789207770 |