Materializing Europe
Subtitle: transnational infrastructures and the project of Europe
By: edited by Alexander Badenoch, Andreas Fickers
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9780230232891
Subjects: Infrastructure (Economics); Economic integration
Description: "This collection looks at transnational infrastructures, from the first ceremonial train of the European Coal and Steel Community to the new border signs replacing checkpoints along motorways, and how such infrastructural links are part of the long history of European unification"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Europe Materializing? Toward a Transnational History of European Infrastructures; title: A.Badenoch&; title: A.Fickers; title: PART I: QUESTIONING THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN INFRASTRUCTURES AND EUROPE; title: Detours around Africa: The Connection between Developing Colonies and Integrating Europe; title: D.van Laak; title: Interlude 1: The Oliven Plan: the Long Life of Non-existent Network; title: V.Lagendijk; title: Myths of the European network: Constructions of Cohesion in Infrastructure Maps; title: A.Badenoch; title: Interlude 2: David Mitrany and Ernst Haas: Theorising a United Europe; title: W.Zaidi; title: Transnational infrastructures and the origins of European integration; J.Schot; title: PART II: MEDIATING EUROPE: MOVING THINGS, BUILDING SYSTEMS; title: Universalism or Regionalism? The Work of the Advisory and Technical Committee for Communications and Transit of the League of Nations; title: F.Schipper, V.Lagendijk&; title: I.Anastasiadou; title: Interlude 3: Louis Armand between United Atoms and Common Railways; title: C.Henrich-Franke; title: Feeding the Peoples of Europe: Transport Infrastructures and the Building of Transnational Cooling Chains in the Early Cold War, 1947-1960; title: E.van der Vleuten; title: Interlude 4: Mobilizing Europe's capital; title: F.Schipper; title: Eurocheque: Creating a 'common currency'. European Infrastructures for the Cashless Mass Payments System; title: B.Bonhage; title: Interlude 5: Georges Valensi, Europe Calling?; title: L.Laborie; title: Off the leash. The European Mobile Phone Standard (GSM) as a Transnational Telecommunications Infrastructure; title: P.Kammerer; title: PART III: EUROPE BETWEEN PROJECTS AND PROJECTIONS; title: Eventing Europe: Broadcasting and the mediated performances of Europe; title: A.Fickers&; title: S.Lommers; title: Interlude 6: The Radio Station Scale: a Materialized European Event; title: A.Fickers; title: From Sea to Shining Sea: Making Ends Meet on European Rivers; title: C.Disco; title: Interlude 6: Peaceful Atom: the Brief Career of a Symbol of Cooperation and Prosperity; title: D.van Lente; title: European Civil Aviation in an Era of Hegemonic Nationalism: Infrastructure, Air Mobility, and European Identity Formation, 1919-1933; title: E.Kranakis.