The Political Fragmentation of Germany Formation of German states by Infrastructures, Maps, and Movement, 1815-1866 /

• Main Author: Segal, Zef M. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Europe, Central-History.; World politics.; Civilization-History.; Emigration and immigration.; History of Germany and Central Europe.; Political History.; Cultural History.; Migration.

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 an...

Table of Contents:

• 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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