Steamboat Modernity

Travel, Transport, and Social Transformation on the Lower Danube, 1830-1860

By: Constantin Ardeleanu, James Christian Brown (Translator)

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Hardcover | 30 June 2024

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264 Pages

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Through the ingenious combination of economic and cultural history, this book describes the impact of the introduction of steam navigation on the Danube on the development of Moldavia and Wallachia in the 1830s to 1860s. The Danube route integrated the two principalities into a dense network of European roads and waterways. Steamboat transport transformed time and space for the areas that benefited from the regular services of steamboat companies. River traffic accelerated urban development along the Lower Danube and contributed directly to institutional modernization in one of Europe's peripheries.

Beyond technological advances and the transportation of goods on a trans-imperial waterway, steamboat travel revolutionized human interactions, too. The book offers a fascinating insight into the social and cultural milieu of the nineteenth century, drawing on first-hand accounts of Danube cruising. Describing the story of travelers who interacted, met, and visited the places they stopped, Constantin Ardeleanu creates a transnational history of travel up and down the Danube from Vienna to Constantinople. The pleasures and sometimes the travails of the travelers unfold against a backdrop of technical and economic transformation in the crucial period of modernization.

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