Materializing Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe

Book Overview

Introduction: Europe Materializing? Toward a Transnational History of European Infrastructures; A.Badenoch & A.Fickers PART I: QUESTIONING THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN INFRASTRUCTURES AND EUROPE Detours around Africa: The Connection between Developing Colonies and Integrating Europe; D.van Laak Biography 1: The Oliven Plan: the Long Life of Non-existent Network; V.Lagendijk Myths of the European network: Constructions of Cohesion in Infrastructure Maps; A.Badenoch Biography 2: David Mitrany and Ernst Haas: Theorising a United Europe; W.Zaidi Transnational Infrastructures and the Origins of European Integration; J.Schot PART II: MEDIATING EUROPE: MOVING THINGS, BUILDING SYSTEMS Universalism or Regionalism? The Work of the Advisory and Technical Committee for Communications and Transit of the League of Nations; F.Schipper, V.Lagendijk & I.Anastasiadou Biography 3: Louis Armand - between United Atoms and Common Railways; C.Henrich-Franke Feeding the Peoples of Europe: Transport Infrastructures and the Building of Transnational Cooling Chains in the Early Cold War, 1947-1960; E.van der Vleuten Biography 4: Mobilizing Europe's Capital; F.Schipper Eurocheque: Creating a 'common currency'. European Infrastructures for the Cashless Mass Payments System; B.Bonhage Biography 5: Georges Valensi, Europe Calling?; L.Laborie Off the Leash. The European Mobile Phone Standard (GSM) as a Transnational Telecommunications Infrastructure; P.Kammerer PART III: EUROPE BETWEEN PROJECTS AND PROJECTIONS Eventing Europe: Broadcasting and the Mediated Performances of Europe; A.Fickers & S.Lommers Biography 6: The Radio Station Scale: a Materialized European Event; A.Fickers From Sea to Shining Sea: Making Ends Meet on European Rivers; C.Disco Biography 7: Peaceful Atom: the Brief Career of a Symbol of Cooperation and Prosperity; D.van Lente European Civil Aviation in an Era of Hegemonic Nationalism: Infrastructure, Air Mobility, and European Identity Formation, 1919-1933; E.Kranakis

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349313130
• ISBN13: 9781349313136
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 333 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"