TY - BOOK ID - 14202628 TI - European coasts of Bohemia : negotiating the Danube-Oder-Elbe canal in a troubled twentieth century PY - 2012 SN - 9089645012 9048518121 9789048518128 1306208297 9781306208291 9789048518135 904851813X 9789089645012 PB - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Canals KW - History. KW - Channels (Hydraulic engineering) KW - Hydraulic structures KW - Inland navigation KW - Inland water transportation KW - Geopolitics KW - History KW - Danube-Oder-Elbe Canal. KW - World politics KW - Inland shipping KW - Shipping, Inland water KW - Water transportation, Inland KW - Shipping KW - geschiedenis KW - history KW - geography KW - and auxiliary disciplines KW - Comecon KW - Czechoslovakia KW - Danube KW - Elbe KW - Oder KW - United Nations Economic Commission for Europe KW - United States Department of Energy KW - Waterway UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14202628 AB - The Danube-Oder-Elbe Canal promised to create an integrated waterway system across Europe, linking Black Sea ports to Atlantic markets and giving landlocked Czech nation its own connections to the ocean. The fascinating history of this never-completed project, 'European Coasts of Bohemia' tells the story of the experts who confronted and contributed to different and often conflicting geopolitical visions of Europe. Jirí Janác shows how the canal-backers adapted themselves to various political developments, such as the break-up of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire and the integration into the Soviet Bloc, while still managing to keep the canal project alive. ER -