Iron landscapes

• Verfasst von: Jeschke, Felix [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Iron landscapes
• Titelzusatz: national space and the railways in interwar Czechoslovakia
• Verf.angabe: Felix Jeschke
• Verlagsort: New York
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Jahr: 2021
• Umfang: ix, 221 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Explorations in mobility ; volume 5
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-1-78920-776-7
• Schlagwörter: (g)Tschechoslowakei / (s)Eisenbahnnetz / (s)Weltbürgertum / (s)Nationalismus / (z)Geschichte 1920-1939
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Jeschke, Felix, 1985 - : Iron landscapes. - New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2021. - 1 online resource (ix, 221 pages)
• K10plus-PPN: 1748561464

Abstract

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.

Abstract

"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"--