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Materializing Europe

Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe

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  • © 2010

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Editors:
  1. Alexander Badenoch

    1. Utrecht University, The Netherlands

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  2. Andreas Fickers

    1. Maastricht University, The Netherlands

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction Europe Materializing? Toward a Transnational History of European Infrastructures

    1. Introduction Europe Materializing? Toward a Transnational History of European Infrastructures

      • Alexander Badenoch, Andreas Fickers
      Pages 1-23

  4. Mediating Europe: Moving Things, Building Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111
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    2. New Connections for an Old Continent: Rail, Road and Electricity in the League of Nations Organisation for Communications and Transit

      • Frank Schipper, Vincent Lagendijk, Irene Anastasiadou
      Pages 113-143

    3. Biography 3: Louis Armand — Between United Atoms and Common Railways

      • Christian Henrich-Franke
      Pages 144-147

    4. Feeding the peoples of Europe’: Transnational Food Transport Infrastructure in the Early Cold War, 1947–1960

      • Erik van der Vleuten
      Pages 148-177

    5. Biography 4: Mobilizing Europe’s Capital

      • Frank Schipper
      Pages 178-181

    6. Eurocheque: Creating a ‘Common Currency’ European Infrastructure for the Cashless Mass Payments System

      • Barbara Bonhage
      Pages 182-197

    7. Biography 5: Georges Valensi: Europe Calling?

      • Leonard Laborie
      Pages 198-201

    8. Off the Leash. The European Mobile Phone Standard (GSM) as a Transnational Telecommunications Infrastructure

      • Patrick Kammerer
      Pages 202-222

  5. Europe between Projects and Projections

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 223-223
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    2. Eventing Europe: Broadcasting and the Mediated Performances of Europe

      • Andreas Fickers, Suzanne Lommers
      Pages 225-251

    3. Biography 6: The Radio Station Scale: A Materialized European Event

      • Andreas Fickers
      Pages 252-254

    4. From Sea to Shining Sea. Making Ends Meet on the Rhine and the Rhone

      • Cornelis Disco
      Pages 255-285
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About this book

This book explores the relationships between European integration and material infrastructures. Taking transnational infrastructures as the focal point of study, the book focuses on the various forms of mediation between the material, institutional and discursive levels of European integration and fragmentation in a truly transnational perspective.

Reviews

'As someone not well versed in the history of technology I found this book a useful adjunct to the politically and economically inclined studies that dominate the contemporary literature.' - European History Quarterly

Editors and Affiliations

  • Utrecht University, The Netherlands

    Alexander Badenoch

  • Maastricht University, The Netherlands

    Andreas Fickers

About the editors

IRENE ANASTASIADOUPost-doctoral Researcher, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands BARBARA BONHAGESwiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland CORNELIS DISCODepartment of Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Twente, the Netherlands SUSANNE LOMMERSPhD candidate, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands CHRISTIAN HENRICH-FRANKEInstitut für Europäische Regionalforschung, University of Siegen, Germany PATRICK KAMMERERScientific Assistant, the Research Centre for Social and Economic History, Univeristy of Zurich, Switzerland EDA KRANAKISAssociate Professor, the University of Ottawa, Canada DIRK VAN LAAKProfessor of History, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany LEONARD LABORIEUniversity of Paris IV Sorbonne, France VINCENT LAGENDIJKEindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands DICK VAN LENTEAssistant Professor for Cultural History of Modern Societies, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, the Netherlands SUZANNE LOMMERSEindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands JOHAN W. SCHOTProfessor of Social History of Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands FRANK SCHIPPERPost-doctoral Researcher, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands ERIK VAN DE VLEUTENAssistant Professor, School of Innovation Sciences, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands WAQAR ZAIDICentre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Imperial College, London, UK

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