The Political Fragmentation of Germany : Formation of German states by Infrastructures, Maps, and Movement, 1815 1866
This book analyses the development of German territorial states in the nineteenth century through the prism of five Mittelstaaten: Bavaria, Saxony, Hanover, Württemberg, and Baden. It asks how a state becomes a place, and argues that it involves a contested and multi-faceted process, one of slow and...
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| Natura: | Livre numérique |
| Lingua: | Anglais |
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Springer International Publishing
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Cham : Springer Nature |
| Accesso online: | Accès sur la plateforme Springer Accès Université d'Orléans |
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Springer e-books en études germaniques (Licence nationale) |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • The Political Fragmentation of Germany, Texte imprimé, 9783030198268 • The Political Fragmentation of Germany, Texte imprimé, 9783030198282 • The Political Fragmentation of Germany, Texte imprimé, 9783030198299 |
Sommario:
- 1 Introduction
- Part I: Infrastructural Layout and State Construction.-2 Limitations of Movement: The Establishment of Gendarmerie Forces and Customs Controls
- 3 Motivating Movement: Developing a State-oriented Higher Education System
- 4 Routes of Mass Movement: Postal and Railway Infrastructures
- Part II: Cartographic Representations of State Space
- 5 The Cartographic Emergence of Modern Borders and Capital Cities
- 6 Defining a National Territory: Cartography and the Invention of Logos
- 7 Reconstructing and Deconstructing State Borders: German Railway Cartography
- Part III: National, Transnational and International Communication and Movement
- 8 The Delimitation of Transnational Societies: Mass Migration and Foreign Students
- 9 The Territoriality of Railway Travel
- 10 Postal Communication as a Social Network
- 11 Connecting the Dots
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