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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jeschke, Felix (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn, 2021.
Series:Explorations in mobility ; v. 5.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Iron Landscapes
  • Forging a Nation from the Tracks: Railway Construction and Representation in Interwar Czechoslovakia
  • The Heart of Europe and its Periphery: Travelling and Travel-Writing
  • 'Germanized Territories' or 'Pure German Soil'? The National Conflict on the Railways
  • Stations between the National and the Cosmopolitan: Railway Buildings and DeAustrianization
  • 'Bratislava to Prague in 4h 51min': Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism and the Slovenská strela
  • Conclusion.