Technology and European History Series
Materialising identity: The co-construction of the Gotthard Railway and Swiss national identity
1st Edition
By Judith Schueler
October 01, 2025
Since its opening in 1882, the Gotthard Railway with its 15-kilometer long tunnel under the Gotthard Mountains, provides a crucial international link through the Swiss Alps, between North-Western Europe and Italy. In contrast to many other railway lines, its symbolic meaning has never sunk into ...
The Socialist People's Car: Automobiles, Shortages and Consent in the Czechoslovak Road to Mass Production
1st Edition
By Valentina Fava
October 17, 2013
Drawing on the corporate and national archives of the former Czechoslovakia, this important volume contributes to the debate on the circulation of technical and organisational knowledge in twentieth-century Europe. Fava examines in depth the transfer of Fordist practices from the US to Central ...
European Coasts of Bohemia: Negotiating the Danube-Oder-Elbe Canal in a Troubled Twentieth Century
1st Edition
By Jirí Janác
November 12, 2012
The Danube–Oder–Elbe Canal attracted a great deal of attention throughout the twentieth century. Its promoters, The Danube–Oder–Elbe Canal, attracted a great deal of attention throughout the twentieth century and defined it as a tool for integrating a divided Europe. Although the canal was situated...
Electrifying Europe: The power of Europe in the construction of electricity networks
1st Edition
By Vincent Lagendijk
March 03, 2009
Nowadays most consumers are aware of the European dimensions of their electricity supply. But what ideas lie behind this European network? In constructing electricity networks, “Europe” performed a Janus-faced function. On the one hand, a European network would bolster economic growth and peace. On...