Materializing Europe : Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe.

По: Badenoch, AДругие авторы: Fickers, AТип материала: ТекстТекстЯзык: English (английский язык)Издатель: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2010Дата авторского права: ©2010Издание: 1st edОписание: 1 online resource (340 pages)Вид содержания: Text Средство доступа: Computermedien Тип носителя: Online ResourceISBN: 9780230292314Тематика(и): World historyЖанр/форма: Fernzugriff | Дополнительные физические форматы: Print version:: Materializing EuropeЭлектронное местонахождение и доступ: Volltext
Содержание:
Intro -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Europe Materializing? Toward a Transnational History of European Infrastructures -- Part I Questioning the Connections between Infrastructures and Europe -- 1. Detours around Africa: The Connection between Developing Colonies and Integrating Europe -- Biography 1: An Electrifying Legacy: The Long Life of the Oliven Plan -- 2. Myths of the European Network: Constructions of Cohesion in Infrastructure Maps -- Biography 2: David Mitrany and Ernst Haas: Theorizing a United Europe -- 3. Transnational Infrastructures and the Origins of European Integration -- Part II Mediating Europe: Moving Things, Building Systems -- 4. New Connections for an Old Continent: Rail, Road and Electricity in the League of Nations Organisation for Communications and Transit -- Biography 3: Louis Armand - Between United Atoms and Common Railways -- 5. 'Feeding the peoples of Europe': Transnational Food Transport Infrastructure in the Early Cold War, 1947-1960 -- Biography 4: Mobilizing Europe's Capital -- 6. Eurocheque: Creating a 'Common Currency' European Infrastructure for the Cashless Mass Payments System -- Biography 5: Georges Valensi: Europe Calling? -- 7. Off the Leash. The European Mobile Phone Standard (GSM) as a Transnational Telecommunications Infrastructure -- Part III Europe between Projects and Projections -- 8. Eventing Europe: Broadcasting and the Mediated Performances of Europe -- Biography 6: The Radio Station Scale: A Materialized European Event -- 9. From Sea to Shining Sea. Making Ends Meet on the Rhine and the Rhone -- Biography 7: Peaceful Atom: The Brief Career of a Symbol of Co-operation and Prosperity.
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Сводка: This book explores the relationships between European integration and material infrastructures. Taking transnational infrastructures as the focal point of study, the book focuses on the various forms of mediation between the material, institutional and discursive levels of European integration and fragmentation in a truly transnational perspective.

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Intro -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Europe Materializing? Toward a Transnational History of European Infrastructures -- Part I Questioning the Connections between Infrastructures and Europe -- 1. Detours around Africa: The Connection between Developing Colonies and Integrating Europe -- Biography 1: An Electrifying Legacy: The Long Life of the Oliven Plan -- 2. Myths of the European Network: Constructions of Cohesion in Infrastructure Maps -- Biography 2: David Mitrany and Ernst Haas: Theorizing a United Europe -- 3. Transnational Infrastructures and the Origins of European Integration -- Part II Mediating Europe: Moving Things, Building Systems -- 4. New Connections for an Old Continent: Rail, Road and Electricity in the League of Nations Organisation for Communications and Transit -- Biography 3: Louis Armand - Between United Atoms and Common Railways -- 5. 'Feeding the peoples of Europe': Transnational Food Transport Infrastructure in the Early Cold War, 1947-1960 -- Biography 4: Mobilizing Europe's Capital -- 6. Eurocheque: Creating a 'Common Currency' European Infrastructure for the Cashless Mass Payments System -- Biography 5: Georges Valensi: Europe Calling? -- 7. Off the Leash. The European Mobile Phone Standard (GSM) as a Transnational Telecommunications Infrastructure -- Part III Europe between Projects and Projections -- 8. Eventing Europe: Broadcasting and the Mediated Performances of Europe -- Biography 6: The Radio Station Scale: A Materialized European Event -- 9. From Sea to Shining Sea. Making Ends Meet on the Rhine and the Rhone -- Biography 7: Peaceful Atom: The Brief Career of a Symbol of Co-operation and Prosperity.

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This book explores the relationships between European integration and material infrastructures. Taking transnational infrastructures as the focal point of study, the book focuses on the various forms of mediation between the material, institutional and discursive levels of European integration and fragmentation in a truly transnational perspective.

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