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Review May 2024

Modernity, cosmopolitanism and the Czechoslovak railways

Review by Tess Megginson
In Iron Landscapes (Berghahn, 2021) Felix Jeschke traces how newly-formed Czechoslovakia embarked on an ambitious rail network project in the interwar period to knit together the heterogenous state. Tess Megginson in her review writes that Jeschke’s book proves that an examination of infrastructure can reveal new perspectives on nation building, while providing novel insights into modernity, cosmopolitanism, and nationalism.

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