Europe's Infrastructure Transition: Economy, War, Nature

1. Manipulating Space and Time. - 2. Fueling Europe. - 3. Networked Food Economy. - 4. Factory and Finance. - 5. Logistics of War. - 6. Linking Land. - 7. Troubled Waters. - 8. Common Skies

Author: Per Högselius, Arne Kaijser, Erik Van Der Vleuten
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 06/28/2018
Pages: 454
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.87lbs
Size: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.97d
ISBN: 9780230308008

About the Author

Per Högselius is Associate Professor at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. His research has focused on international aspects and in particular East-West relations in the history of science, technology, and environment. Most recently he published Red Gas: Russia and the Origins of European Energy Dependence (2013).

Arne Kaijser is Professor of History of Technology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. His main research interests concern infrastructure, institutions, and environment in historical perspective. Together with Erik van der Vleuten he edited Networking Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the shaping of Europe, 1850-2000 (2006).

Erik van der Vleuten is Professor of History of Technology at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, and scientific director of the Foundation for the History of Technology (SHT). In 2013-2015 he chaired the Pan-European research network Tensions of Europe: Technology and the Making of Europe. With Högselius and Kaijser he authored Europe's Infrastructure Transition: Economy, War, Nature (2015).