Steamboat Modernity : Travel, Transport, and Social Transformation on the Lower Danube, 1830-1860

Steamboat Modernity Travel, Transport, and Social Transformation on the Lower Danube, 1830-1860

Through a skillful combination of economic and cultural history, this book describes the impact on Moldavia and Wallachia of steam navigation on the Danube. The Danube route integrated the two principalities into a dense network of European roads and waterways. From the 1830s to the 1860s, steamboat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ardeleanu, Constantin (-)
Autor Corporativo: Opening the Future funder (funder)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Budapest : Central European University Press 2024.
Edición:1st ed
Materias:
River steamers > Lower Danube River > History > 19th century.
Romanians > Travel.
Travelers > Romania > History > 19th century.
HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century.
Moldavia.
Transportation revolution.
Wallachia.
quarantines.
sociality.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009814639506719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction “The Character of Our Age”
  • Chapter 1 A Cruise between Civilizations
  • Chapter 2 A Floating City
  • Chapter 3 Between the Orient and Russia
  • Chapter 4 The Romanians in Europe
  • Chapter 5 Travels and Epidemics
  • Chapter 6 Nature and Technolog y at the Iron Gates
  • Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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