Europe's Infrastructure Transition: Economy, War, Nature 2016 Edition Contributor(s): Högselius, Per (Author), Kaijser, Arne (Author), Van Der Vleuten, Erik (Author) |
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ISBN: 0230308007 ISBN-13: 9780230308008 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $26.59 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - General - Business & Economics | Infrastructure - Business & Economics | Economic History |
Dewey: 363.609 |
Series: Making Europe |
Physical Information: 0.97" H x 7.44" W x 9.69" (1.87 lbs) 454 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Europe's infrastructure both united and divided peoples and places via economic systems, crises, and wars. Some used transport, communication, and energy infrastructure to supply food, power, industrial products, credit, and unprecedented wealth; others mobilized infrastructure capacities for waging war on scales hitherto unknown. Europe's natural world was fundamentally transformed; its landscapes, waterscapes, and airscapes turned into infrastructure themselves. Europe's Infrastructure Transition reframes the conflicted story of modern European history by taking material networks as its point of departure. It traces the priorities set and the choices made in constructing transnational infrastructure connections - within and beyond the continent. Moreover, this study introduces an alternative set of historically-key individuals, organizations, and companies in the making of modern Europe and analyzes roads both taken and ignored. |