[PDF] Danubian Trade eBook

Author : Antonin Basch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 17,94 MB
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136227571

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First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Luminita Gatejel
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 30,1 MB
Release : 2022-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9633865808

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The Lower Danube—the stretch of Europe’s second longest river between the Romanian-Serbian border and the confluence to the Black Sea—was effectively transformed during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In describing this lengthy undertaking, Luminita Gatejel proposes that remaking two key stretches—the Iron Gates and the delta—not only physically altered the river but also redefined it in a legal and political sense. Since the late eighteenth century, military conflicts and peace treaties changed the nature of sovereignty over the area, as the expansionist tendencies of the Habsburg and British Empires encountered rival Ottoman and Russian imperial plans. The inconvenience that the river’s physical shape obstructed free navigation and the growth of commercial traffic, was an increasing concern to all parties. This book shows that alongside imperial aspirations, transnational actors like engineers, commissioners and entrepreneurs were the driving force behind the river regulation. In this highly original, deeply researched, and carefully crafted study, Gatejel explores the formation of international cooperation, the emergence of technical expertise and the emergence of engineering as a profession. This constellation turned the Lower Danube into a laboratory for experimenting with new forms of international cooperation, economic integration, and nature transformation.

Author : Stephen Gorove
Publisher : Springer
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 45,25 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9401192596

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The Danube has been for two centuries the great connecting link between the European West and the European East. Most commercial and cultural exchanges between the two parts of Europe took place with the help of or along the Danube. The West involved was, above all, southern Germany and the cisbithynian part of the Habsburg monarchy. The East was the formerly Turkish ruled territories, the Balkan peninsula and the Black Sea. The latter was, for the last two centuries, the center of conflict between Russian and Turkish hegemo nial aspirations. The events of the Balkan wars and of World War I almost ex tinguished Turkish influence, an event long expected: The outcome of World War I fortified, to an unexpected degree, the influence of Russia, which now became almost synonymous with the term of the European East. For a few years the middle and lower Danube threaten ed to disappear behind the Iron Curtain which marked the extent of Eastern influence.

Author : Constantin Ardeleanu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 11,61 MB
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9004425969

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The history of the world’s second international organisation, an innovative techno-political institution established by Europe’s Concert of Powers to remove insecurity from the Lower Danube.