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Session Submission Type: Panel
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.
Exploring the Lower Danube: Cartographic and Commercial Expeditions of the Habsburg Monarchy in the Late 18th Century - Luminita Gatejel, U of Regensburg (Germany)
Steamboats down the Danube: British Travel Writers in Southeastern Europe in the Late-Nineteenth Century - James Koranyi, U of Durham (UK)
Reconfiguring Trans-Ottoman Mobility: Transport Infrastructure in the Ottoman Danube Province in the Second Half of the 19th Century - Florian Riedler, U of Giessen (Germany)