Description
Book SynopsisThis book explores the relationships between European integration and material infrastructures. Taking transnational infrastructures as the focal point of study, the book focuses on the various forms of mediation between the material, institutional and discursive levels of European integration and fragmentation in a truly transnational perspective.
Trade Review'As someone not well versed in the history of technology I found this book a useful adjunct to the politically and economically inclined studies that dominate the contemporary literature.' - European History Quarterly
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Europe Materializing? Toward a Transnational History of European Infrastructures; A.Badenoch & A.Fickers PART I: QUESTIONING THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN INFRASTRUCTURES AND EUROPE Detours around Africa: The Connection between Developing Colonies and Integrating Europe; D.van Laak Biography 1: The Oliven Plan: the Long Life of Non-existent Network; V.Lagendijk Myths of the European network: Constructions of Cohesion in Infrastructure Maps; A.Badenoch Biography 2: David Mitrany and Ernst Haas: Theorising a United Europe; W.Zaidi Transnational Infrastructures and the Origins of European Integration; J.Schot PART II: MEDIATING EUROPE: MOVING THINGS, BUILDING SYSTEMS Universalism or Regionalism? The Work of the Advisory and Technical Committee for Communications and Transit of the League of Nations; F.Schipper , V.Lagendijk & I.Anastasiadou Biography 3: Louis Armand – between United Atoms and Common Railways; C.Henrich-Franke Feeding the Peoples of Europe: Transport Infrastructures and the Building of Transnational Cooling Chains in the Early Cold War, 1947-1960; E.van der Vleuten Biography 4: Mobilizing Europe's Capital; F.Schipper Eurocheque: Creating a 'common currency'. European Infrastructures for the Cashless Mass Payments System; B.Bonhage Biography 5: Georges Valensi, Europe Calling?; L.Laborie Off the Leash. The European Mobile Phone Standard (GSM) as a Transnational Telecommunications Infrastructure; P.Kammerer PART III: EUROPE BETWEEN PROJECTS AND PROJECTIONS Eventing Europe: Broadcasting and the Mediated Performances of Europe; A.Fickers & S.Lommers Biography 6: The Radio Station Scale: a Materialized European Event; A.Fickers From Sea to Shining Sea: Making Ends Meet on European Rivers; C.Disco Biography 7: Peaceful Atom: the Brief Career of a Symbol of Cooperation and Prosperity; D.van Lente European Civil Aviation in an Era of Hegemonic Nationalism: Infrastructure, Air Mobility, and European Identity Formation, 1919-1933; E.Kranakis
