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Infrastructure, Networks, (Large) Technical Systems: The ‘Hidden Integration’ of Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2010

CHRISTIAN KLEINSCHMIDT
CHRISTIAN KLEINSCHMIDT*
Affiliation:
Philipps-Universität Marburg, Room 05C12, GWS Kern C, Wilhelm-Röpke-Straße 6, 35032 Marburg, Germany; christian.kleinschmidt@staff.uni-marburg.de.
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Contemporary European History , Volume 19 , Issue 3: Aftershocks: Violence in Dissolving Empires after the First World War , August 2010 , pp. 275 - 284
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References

1 For information on this project go to www.tie-project.nl, and see also Misa, Thomas J. and Shot, Johan, ‘Inventing Europe: Technology and the Hidden Integration of Europe: Introduction’, History and Technology, 21, 1 (2005), 1–22CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 For more details got to www.fhk.eur.nl/english/rhineeconomy/home/.

3 www.uni-siegen.de/ifer/infrastruktur/index.html?lang=de. Gerold Ambrosius, of the University of Siefen, is also looking at currency and weights-and-measures policies, since these can be seen as an aspect of Europe's ‘hidden integration’ before the First World War. See his Regulativer Wettbewerb und koordinative Standardisierung zwischen Staaten. Theoretische Annahmen und historische Beispiele (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005); see also Zupko, Ronald E., Revolution in Measurement: Western European Weights and Measures since the Age of Science (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2009)Google Scholar.

4 Only a few selected references relating to these subjects can be given here. See, e.g., Pierre Michelet, ‘Les transports au sol et l'organisation de l'Europe’, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Lausanne, 1961; Lucas, N. J. D., Energy and the European Communities (London: Europa Publications, 1977)Google Scholar; Foeman-Peck, J. and Müller, J., eds., European Telecommunications Organisation (Baden-Baden: Nomosverlagsgesellschaft, 1988)Google Scholar; Matlary, Janne Haaland, Energy Policy in the European Union (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1997)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Ville, Simon P., Transport and the Development of the European Economy 1750–1918 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1990)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

5 Hughes, Thomas P., Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880–1930 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983)Google Scholar; Nye, David E., Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880–1940 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990)Google Scholar.

6 Kühl, Uwe, ed., Der Munizipalsozialismus in Europa/Le socialisme municipal en Europe (Munich: R. Oldenbourg, 2001)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

7 There is a large contemporary and recent literature on this project. See, e.g., Gall, Alexander, Das Atlantropa-Projekt. Die Geschichte einer gescheiterten Vision. Hermann Sörgel and die Absenkung des Mittelmeers (Frankfurt and New York: Campus, 1998)Google Scholar.

8 On which see Ambrosius, Regulativer Wettbewerb.

9 Dommann, Monika, ‘“Be wise – palletize”. Die Transformationen eines Transportbretts zwischen den USA and Europa im Zeitalter der Logistik’, Traverse. Zeitschrift für Geschichte, 3 (2009), 21–35Google Scholar.