Political fragmentation of Germany : The formation of German states by infrastructure, maps and movement 1815-1866 / by Zef M. Segal.
Segal, Zef M.
2019
DD203 .S44 2019
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Title Political fragmentation of Germany : The formation of German states by infrastructure, maps and movement 1815-1866 / by Zef M. Segal.
Author Segal, Zef M.
ISBN 9783030198275 (electronic book)
3030198278 (electronic book)
303019826X
9783030198268
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2019 ; Imprint Palgrave Macmillan.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xviii, 278 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-19
Call Number DD203 .S44 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification 943
Summary This book analyses the development of German territorial states in the nineteenth century through the prism of five Mittelstaaten: Bavaria, Saxony, Hanover, Württemberg, and Baden. It asks how a state becomes a place, and argues that it involves a contested and multi-faceted process, one of slow and uneven progress. The study approaches this question from a new and crucial angle, that of spatiality and public mobility. The issues covered range from the geography of state apparatus, the aesthetics of German cartography and the trajectories of public movement. Challenging the belief that territorial delimitation is primarily a matter of policy and diplomacy, this book reveals that political territories are constructed through daily practices and imagination.
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1 Introduction
Part I: Infrastructural Layout and State Construction.-2 Limitations of Movement: The Establishment of Gendarmerie Forces and Customs Controls
3 Motivating Movement: Developing a State-oriented Higher Education System
4 Routes of Mass Movement: Postal and Railway Infrastructures
Part II: Cartographic Representations of State Space
5 The Cartographic Emergence of Modern Borders and Capital Cities
6 Defining a 'National Territory: Cartography and the Invention of Logos
7 Reconstructing and Deconstructing State Borders: German Railway Cartography
Part III: National, Transnational and International Communication and Movement
8 The Delimitation of Transnational Societies: Mass Migration and Foreign Students
9 The Territoriality of Railway Travel
10 Postal Communication as a Social Network
11 Connecting the Dots.

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