1st Edition
Steamboat Modernity Travel, Transport, and Social Transformation on the Lower Danube, 1830-1860
By Constantin Ardeleanu
Copyright 2024
264 Pages
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Central European University Press
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 transport transformed time and space for the areas that benefited from regular services. River... Read more
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 technology at the Iron Gates, Conclusion, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Constantin Ardeleanu is a senior researcher at the Institute of South-East European Studies of the Romanian Academy and at the New Europe College – Institute for Advanced Study in Bucharest.
