1st Edition
Engineering the Lower Danube Technology and Territoriality in an Imperial Borderland, Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
By Luminita Gatejel
Copyright 2023
348 Pages
by
Central European University Press
The Lower Danube—the stretch of Europe’s second longest river between the Romanian-Serbian border and the confluence to the Black Sea—was effectively transformed during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In describing this lengthy undertaking, Luminita Gatejel proposes that remaking two key stretches—the Iron Gates and the delta—not only physically altered... Read more
Acknowledgements, List of Figures, List of Acronyms and Abbreviations, Introduction, Chapter 1 Exploring the Danube, Chapter 2 Connecting the Danube with the Sea, Chapter 3 From Confrontation to Cooperation: The Crimean War and Its Aftermath, Chapter 4 The Danube Delta: A Success in International Ruling, Chapter 5 The Iron Gates Torn Between Imperial, International, and National Interests, Conclusions, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Luminita Gatejel is a senior researcher at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg.
