Materialising identity : : The co-construction of the Gotthard Railway and Swiss national identity / / Judith Schueler.
Since 1882, the Gotthard Railway, with its fifteen-kilometer long tunnel under the Gotthard Mountains, has provided a crucial international link through the Swiss Alps, between North-Western Europe and Italy. Its symbolic meaning has never sunk into oblivion. In Swiss society today, references to th...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2009] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Technology and European History ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (197 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Table of contents
- Introduction: The Gotthard as a national image
- 1. National building practices at stake
- 2. Celebrating the Gotthard Railway
- 3. Travelling the Gotthard
- 4. Re-writing history
- Conclusion
- Epilogue
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
- Summary