Conflict in Cooperation - Crossborder Infrastructures in Europe Facing the Second World War

This volume deals with cross-border infrastructural cooperation during the Second World War. It compares the development of postal services, telecommunications, railways and shipping, and places its findings in the context of the long-term developments of European integration. It therefore calls into question the hitherto dominant assumption that the Second World War signalled a caesura in international cooperation. At the same time, the study shows that cross-border initiatives were undertaken not only in spite of the war, but sometimes precisely because of it. The individual contributions thus also intervene in the debate on 'New Europe'. With contributions byValentine Aldebert, Claire Aslangul-Rallo, Julia Eichenberg, Pascal Griset, Christian Henrich-Franke, Jirí Janác, Léonard Laborie, Martinal Libera, Sabrina Proschmann and Guido Thiemeyer.

Summary

This volume deals with cross-border infrastructural cooperation during the Second World War. It compares the development of postal services, telecommunications, railways and shipping, and places its findings in the context of the long-term developments of European integration. It therefore calls into question the hitherto dominant assumption that the Second World War signalled a caesura in international cooperation. At the same time, the study shows that cross-border initiatives were undertaken not only in spite of the war, but sometimes precisely because of it. The individual contributions thus also intervene in the debate on ‘New Europe’.

With contributions by
Valentine Aldebert, Claire Aslangul-Rallo, Julia Eichenberg, Pascal Griset, Christian Henrich-Franke, Jiří Janáč, Léonard Laborie, Martinal Libera, Sabrina Proschmann and Guido Thiemeyer.

Product details

• Assisted by: Valentine Aldebert (Editor), Christian Henrich-Franke (Editor), Léonard Laborie (Editor), Léonard Laborie et al (Editor), Sabrina Proschmann (Editor), Guido Thiemeyer (Editor)
• Publisher: Nomos
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2022
• EAN: 9783848788859
• ISBN: 978-3-8487-8885-9
• No. of pages: 257
• Dimensions: 172 mm x 14 mm x 228 mm
• Weight: 390 g
• Series: Historische Dimensionen Europäischer Integration
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; Zweiter Weltkrieg, Schifffahrt, Eisenbahn, Telekommunikation, Post, Europe, NG-Rabatt, Second World War, telecommunications, Railways, Shipping, Infrastructures, international history, History of International Relations, Postal Services, Collaboration/Cooperation, New Europe, History of European Integration