Materializing Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe

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Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Notes on Contributors......Page 11
Introduction: Europe Materializing? Toward a Transnational History of European Infrastructures......Page 14
Part I Questioning the Connections between Infrastructures and Europe......Page 38
1. Detours around Africa: The Connection between Developing Colonies and Integrating Europe......Page 40
Biography 1: An Electrifying Legacy: The Long Life of the Oliven Plan......Page 57
2. Myths of the European Network: Constructions of Cohesion in Infrastructure Maps......Page 60
Biography 2: David Mitrany and Ernst Haas: Theorizing a United Europe......Page 91
3. Transnational Infrastructures and the Origins of European Integration......Page 95
Part II Mediating Europe: Moving Things, Building Systems......Page 124
4. New Connections for an Old Continent: Rail, Road and Electricity in the League of Nations Organisation for Communications and Transit......Page 126
Biography 3: Louis Armand – Between United Atoms and Common Railways......Page 157
5. ‘Feeding the peoples of Europe’: Transnational Food Transport Infrastructure in the Early Cold War, 1947–1960......Page 161
Biography 4: Mobilizing Europe’s Capital......Page 191
6. Eurocheque: Creating a ‘Common Currency’ European Infrastructure for the Cashless Mass Payments System......Page 195
Biography 5: Georges Valensi: Europe Calling?......Page 211
7. Off the Leash. The European Mobile Phone Standard (GSM) as a Transnational Telecommunications Infrastructure......Page 215
Part III Europe between Projects and Projections......Page 236
8. Eventing Europe: Broadcasting and the Mediated Performances of Europe......Page 238
Biography 6: The Radio Station Scale: A Materialized European Event......Page 265
9. From Sea to Shining Sea. Making Ends Meet on the Rhine and the Rhone......Page 268
Biography 7: Peaceful Atom: The Brief Career of a Symbol of Co-operation and Prosperity......Page 299
10. European Civil Aviation in an Era of Hegemonic Nationalism: Infrastructure, Air Mobility, and European Identity Formation, 1919–1933......Page 303
Index......Page 340
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