Description
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.
Author: Felix Jeschke
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 08/13/2021
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9781789207767
ISBN10: 1789207762
BISAC Categories:
- History | Eastern Europe | General
- Transportation | Railroads | History
- Technology & Engineering | History
About the Author
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.