Materializing Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction Europe Materializing? Toward a Transnational History of European Infrastructures....Pages 1-23
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
Detours around Africa: The Connection between Developing Colonies and Integrating Europe....Pages 27-43
Biography 1: An Electrifying Legacy: The Long Life of the Oliven Plan....Pages 44-46
Myths of the European Network: Constructions of Cohesion in Infrastructure Maps....Pages 47-77
Biography 2: David Mitrany and Ernst Haas: Theorizing a United Europe....Pages 78-81
Transnational Infrastructures and the Origins of European Integration....Pages 82-109
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
New Connections for an Old Continent: Rail, Road and Electricity in the League of Nations Organisation for Communications and Transit....Pages 113-143
Biography 3: Louis Armand — Between United Atoms and Common Railways....Pages 144-147
Feeding the peoples of Europe’: Transnational Food Transport Infrastructure in the Early Cold War, 1947–1960....Pages 148-177
Biography 4: Mobilizing Europe’s Capital....Pages 178-181
Eurocheque: Creating a ‘Common Currency’ European Infrastructure for the Cashless Mass Payments System....Pages 182-197
Biography 5: Georges Valensi: Europe Calling?....Pages 198-201
Off the Leash. The European Mobile Phone Standard (GSM) as a Transnational Telecommunications Infrastructure....Pages 202-222
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
Eventing Europe: Broadcasting and the Mediated Performances of Europe....Pages 225-251
Biography 6: The Radio Station Scale: A Materialized European Event....Pages 252-254
From Sea to Shining Sea. Making Ends Meet on the Rhine and the Rhone....Pages 255-285
Biography 7: Peaceful Atom: The Brief Career of a Symbol of Co-operation and Prosperity....Pages 286-289
European Civil Aviation in an Era of Hegemonic Nationalism: Infrastructure, Air Mobility, and European Identity Formation, 1919–1933....Pages 290-326
Back Matter....Pages 327-333