TY  - BOOK
AU  - Janáč,Jiří
TI  - European coasts of Bohemia: negotiating the Danube-Oder-Elbe Canal in a troubled twentieth century 
T2  - Amsterdam University Press - Technology and European History
SN  - 9789048518128
AV  - HE442.3 .J36 2012eb
U1  - 330.09 22
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - Amsterdam University Press
KW  - Canals
KW  - Czech Republic
KW  - Bohemia
KW  - History
KW  - Danube River
KW  - Oder River
KW  - Elbe River (Czech Republic and Germany)
KW  - Canaux
KW  - République tchèque
KW  - Bohême
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Danube (Fleuve)
KW  - Oder (Fleuve)
KW  - Elbe (République tchèque et Allemagne : Fleuve)
KW  - bicssc
KW  - History: specific events and topics
KW  - Humanities
KW  - Industrialisation and industrial history
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Economics
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Reference
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - fast
KW  - Europe
KW  - Elbe River
KW  - Geschiedenis
KW  - History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; 1; Introduction --; 2; Mittel-Europeanization on waterways --; 3; Canal as artery for Nazi expansion --; 4; Linking the Soviet Volga ; not the Rhine! --; 5; Mastering three seas --; 6; Conclusion; 1; Introduction --; Infrastructure Historiography --; Canal as a Laboratory of Europe --; 2; Mittel-Europeanization on Waterways --; On Mittel-Europeanization --; Building Mitteleuropa on Waterways before Versailles --; De-Austrianization: Shaping the Czechoslovak State --; Mittel-Europeanization beyond the State? --; 3; Canal as Artery for Nazi Expansion --; On Nazification --; Constructing the Grossraum --; From Grand Opening to Inauspicious End --; 4; Linking the Soviet Volga; not the Rhine! --; On Sovietization --; Projecting a Soviet Canal --; Sovietization "Beyond the State" --; The Final Plan --; 5; Mastering Three Seas --; On Europeanization --; Across the Curtain --; Europeanization of the Canal Design --; Canalizing Europe --; 6; Conclusion
N2  - The Danube-Oder-Elbe Canal promised to create an integrated waterway system across Europe, linking Black Sea ports to Atlantic markets and giving landlocked Czech nation its own connections to the ocean. The fascinating history of this never-completed project, European Coasts of Bohemia tells the story of the experts who confronted and contributed to different and often conflicting geopolitical visions of Europe. Jíra Janác shows how the canal-backers adapted themselves to various political developments, such as the break-up of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire and the integration into the Soviet
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