Iron Landscapes: National Space and the Railways in Interwar Czechoslovakia
Felix Jeschke, "Iron Landscapes: National Space and the Railways in Interwar Czechoslovakia "
English | ISBN: 1789207762 | 2021 | 256 pages | PDF | 1224 KB
English | ISBN: 1789207762 | 2021 | 256 pages | PDF | 1224 KB
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the newly formed country of Czechoslovakia built an ambitious national rail network out of what remained of the obsolete Habsburg system. While conceived as a means of knitting together a young and ethnically diverse nation-state, these railways were by their very nature a transnational phenomenon, and as such they simultaneously articulated and embodied a distinctive Czechoslovak cosmopolitanism. Drawing on evidence ranging from government documents to newsreels to train timetables,
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