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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn,
2021.
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| 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.