TitleMaterializing Europe : transnational infrastructures and the project of Europe / edited by Alexander Badenoch and Andreas Fickers
Imprint Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
Descript xi, 333 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm

CONTENT

Questioning the connections between infrastructures and europe: Detours around Africa: the connection between developing colonies and integrating Europe ; Myths of the European network: constructions of cohesion in infrastructure maps ; Transnational infrastructures and the origins of European integration -- Mediating Europe: moving things, building systems: New connections for an old continent: rail, road and electricity in the League of Nations Organisation for communications and transit ; Eurocheque: creating a common currency European infrastructure for the cashless mass payments system ; Feeding the peoples of Europe: transnational food transport infrastructures in the early Cold War, 1947-1960 ; Off the leash. The European Mobile Phone Standard (GSM) as a transnational telecommunications infrastructure -- Europe between projects and projections: Eventing Europe: broadcasting and the mediated performances of Europe ; From sea to shining sea. Making ends meet on the Rhine and the Rhone ; European civil aviation in an era of hegemonic nationalism: infrastructure, air mobility, and European identity formation, 1919-1933


SUBJECT

  1. Infrastructure (Economics) -- Europe
  2. Europe -- Economic integration

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