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Iron Landscapes: National Space and the Railways in Interwar Czechoslovakia

Iron Landscapes: National Space and the Railways in Interwar Czechoslovakia

Jeschke, Felix

Hardcover

Series: Explorations in Mobility, Book 5

Technology & EngineeringTrainsEastern European History

ISBN10: 1789207762
ISBN13: 9781789207767
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Aug 13 2021
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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