Constantin Ardeleanu
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
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The book explores the impact of steam navigation on Moldavia and Wallachia, integrating them into a dense network of European roads and waterways and transforming time and space. It also describes the social and cultural milieu of the nineteenth century, drawing on first-hand accounts of Danube cruising.
Format: Hardback
Length: 264 pages
Publication date: 30 June 2024
Publisher: Central European University Press
The book explores the impact of steam navigation on the Danube, connecting Moldavia and Wallachia to a dense network of European roads and waterways. From the 1830s to the 1860s, steamboat transport transformed time and space, accelerating urban development and institutional modernization in one of Europe's peripheries. Beyond technological advances, steamboat travel revolutionized human interactions, offering a fascinating insight into the social and cultural milieu of the nineteenth century. Drawing on first-hand accounts of Danube cruising, Constantin Ardeleanu creates a transnational history of travel up and down the Danube from Vienna to Constantinople, highlighting the pleasures and travails of the travelers against a backdrop of technical and economic transformation during the period of modernization.
Weight: 528g
Dimension: 235 x 160 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789633867532
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