Iron Landscapes

National Space and the Railways in Interwar Czechoslovakia

Felix Jeschke (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2021
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-776-7 (ISBN)

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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. Iron Landscapes gives a nuanced account of how planners and authorities knitted together the young nation-state and articulated a Czechoslovak cosmopolitanism.

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 very nature a transnational phenomenon, and as such they simultaneously articulated and embodied a distinctive Czechoslovak cosmopolitanism. Drawing on evidence ranging from government documents to newsreels to train timetables, Iron Landscapes gives a nuanced account of how planners and authorities balanced these two imperatives, bringing the cultural history of infrastructure into dialogue with the spatial history of Central Europe.

Felix Jeschke is a historian at the University of Munich. He holds a doctorate in modern history from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London.

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Iron Landscapes

Chapter 1. Forging a Nation from the Tracks: Railway Construction and Representation in Interwar Czechoslovakia

Chapter 2. The Heart of Europe and its Periphery: Travelling and Travel Writing

Chapter 3. ‘Germanized Territories’ or ‘Pure German Soil’? The National Conflict on the Railways

Chapter 4. Stations between the National and the Cosmopolitan: Railway Buildings and De-Austrianization

Chapter 5. ‘Bratislava to Prague in 4h 51min’: Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism and the Slovenská strela

Conclusion

Appendix: Tables: Nationality Statistics of Czechoslovak Railway Workers in 1923

Bibliography

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Erscheinungsdatum	22.06.2021
Reihe/Serie	Explorations in Mobility
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schienenfahrzeuge
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-78920-776-2 / 1789207762
ISBN-13	978-1-78920-776-7 / 9781789207767
Zustand	Neuware