Session Submission Summary
Share...

Direct link:

Traveling down the Danube: Knowledge, Networks, and Infrastructure in the Late-eighteenth and the Nineteenth Centuries

Sun, December 9, 10:00 to 11:45am, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Floor: 2nd, St. Botolph

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

From the late-18th century, southeastern Europe became part of larger and more complex transportation networks. The Danube in particular turned into one of the busiest arteries in Europe in the 19th century. This panel explores, on the one hand, several projects by private or state actors that sought to develop the Danubian infrastructure. The papers examine the drive for more connectivity at the crossroads of several overlapping imperial interests (the Ottoman, Habsburg, and Russian Empires), and consider the involvement of the other major powers (especially the British Empire). On the other hand, this panel investigates the Danube as a contested site of modernity through the eyes of travelers, cartographers and other onlookers. Collectively the papers explore the Danube as an in-between space that served as a place for mediating modernity and disseminating knowledge.

Sub Unit

Chair

Papers

Discussant