{"product_id":"shifting-lines-entangled-borderlands-mobilities-and-migration-along-the-prussian-eastern-railroad-paperback-softback-9780253068927","title":"Shifting Lines, Entangled Borderlands; Mobilities and Migration Along the Prussian Eastern Railroad (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253068927","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eShifting Lines, Entangled Borderlands\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMobilities and Migration Along the Prussian Eastern Railroad\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJan Musekamp (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253068927\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 5 March 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e314 pages, 33 b\u0026amp;w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 1.7 cm, 0.485 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Jan Musekamp skillfully tells the fascinating story of a multidimensional transportation corridor created by the railroad. He shows how technical revolution, railroad construction, and nation-state formation led to the industrialization of time and the production of a larger European space. He explains the transformation of the borderlands, the significance of trade and commerce, and how the architecture of railroad bridges combined international engineering know-how with the desire to advance certain historical narratives. The book highlights the dual nature of the railroad as a vehicle for social mobility and military mobilization, and the railroad's contribution to the expansion of transatlantic migration and the rise of modern mass tourism. In sum, this masterful book accomplishes nothing less than capturing the creation of a multidimensional space in Europe – a space that would be ruined in the catastrophes of the twentieth century.\"—Karl Schlögel, author of The Soviet Century\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eShifting Lines, Entangled Borderlands\u003c\/i\u003e is an exemplary blending of the histories of transnationalism, nationalism, culture, technology, and mobility. Drawing on conventional historical sources in five different languages, rail schedules, architectural and engineering plans, tourist guidebooks, and the memoirs of famous and ordinary people, the book uses seemingly nondescript railway towns and structures to provide groundbreaking insights into the transit points where different sorts of people have crossed political and social boundaries in the past two centuries. It is a significant contribution to the history of transnational migration.\"—Timothy H. Parsons, coeditor of Mapping Migration, Identity, and Space\u003cbr\u003e \"This book is important for its multi-faceted analysis of the politics, economics, and cultural forces driving the crucial innovation in modern travel in the nineteenth century. Railroad funding, the iconography of stations and bridges, anti-Semitism and anti-Polish politics, and the price of lentils all play a role. Musekamp thus offers an extraordinary depth to the history of mobility, politics, economics, culture, and migration in northeastern Europe.\"—Leslie Page Moch, author of Moving Europeans\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracing multiple mobilities, entangled borderlands, microhistory and space, and human and nonhuman actors, Jan Musekamp demonstrates how an inner-Prussian railroad line turned into a transnational force, overcoming borders and connecting Europeans in a time of rising nationalism. \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eShifting Lines, Entangled Borderlands\u003c\/i\u003e investigates the dichotomy between a globalizing world and tighter border control in nineteenth-century Central and Eastern Europe, focusing on the Royal Prussian Eastern Railroad (Ostbahn) between the 1830s and 1930s. The line was initially planned as a major internal modernizing project to connect Prussia's capital of Berlin to East Prussia's provincial capital of Königsberg (today's Kaliningrad). Soon, the Ostbahn connected to the growing Imperial Russian railroad network, thus becoming a backbone of European East–West transportation in trade, tourism, technological exchange, and migration. The First World War temporarily disrupted and reconfigured existing networks, adapting them to new political regimes and borders. However, World War II and its aftermath altered mobility patterns more permanently, dividing not only the Ostbahn tracks but the whole continent for decades to come. \u003cbr\u003e From border towns and major cities to unique structures, such as stations or bridges, this volume analyzes the obvious and not-so-obvious nodes of the Central and Eastern European rail network—and the spaces in between.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eDedication\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Note on Transliteration, Place Names, Dates, and Administrative Units\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Ostbahn and European Mobilities in the Railroad Age\u003cbr\u003e 1. Berlin and the Ostbahn: Railroads as Vehicles of Change\u003cbr\u003e 2. Aleksandrów: A Border Station at the Center of Imperial Power and Polish Nationalism\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Vistula Bridge at Dirschau (Tczew): National in Form, Transnational in Content\u003cbr\u003e 4. Eydtkuhnen and Verzhbolovo: International Travel and a Continental Divide\u003cbr\u003e 5. Königsberg: At the Intersection of Land- and Seaborne Trade\u003cbr\u003e 6. Kaunas—Eydtkuhnen—New York: Emigration Routes\u003cbr\u003e 7. The First World War and its Aftermath: Cutting Lines, Creating New Links\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: An Interrupted European Corridor\u003cbr\u003e Glossary of Place and River Names in Different Languages\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52685358792984,"sku":"9780253068927","price":29.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/shifting-lines-entangled-borderlands-mobilities-and-migration-along-the-prussian-eastern-railroad-paperback-softback-9780253068927","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}