Engineering the Lower Danube

Engineering the Lower Danube

Technology and Territoriality in an Imperial Borderland, Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Gatejel, Luminita

Central European University Press

01/2023

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Acknowledgements

List of Figures

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations


Introduction

Engineering International Cooperation on the Lower Danube

Building Infrastructure along the Lower Danube

Sources and Outline


Chapter 1. Exploring the Danube

Knowledge and the Imperial Appropriation of the Lower Danube

Luigi Marsigli and Austrian Expansionism on the Lower Danube

The First Habsburg Economic Enterprises on the Lower Danube

State Support and Renewed Attempts to Upgrade the Danube Route

New Habsburg Assessments at the Turn of the Century

Why Did the Shipping Connection on the Danube Fail?

Russia's Steady Advance to the Lower Danube

Russia's "Enlightened" Projects Along the Lower Danube

Conclusion


Chapter 2. Connecting the Danube with the Sea

Physical and Symbolic Boundaries at the Iron Gates

Military Surveys at the Iron Gates

Technical Assessments of the Iron Gates

Negotiating the Passage to the Lower Danube

First Engineering Breakthrough at the Iron Gates

Traveling through the Iron Gates

Delays and Damage to the Sulina Channel

Circumventing the Danube Delta

Conclusion


3. From Confrontation to Cooperation: the Crimean War and Its Aftermath

War as an opportunity at the Iron Gates

The Danube Delta During the Crimean War

The Failed Riverine Commission

Engineering Breakthrough at the Mouth of the Danube

Hartley's Provisional Project at the Sulina Bar

The Inauguration of Hartley's Piers

Conclusion


4. The Danube Delta: A Success in International Ruling

Provisional Regulations for the Delta

The Public Act on Navigation

Budget Constraints

On the Way to Permanency

Consolidation Works at Sulina

Straightening the Sulina Channel

Conclusion


5. The Iron Gates Torn Between Imperial, International and National Interests

The Engineer Versus the Entrepreneur

The Limited Influence of the International Commission

A New Commission of Foreign Experts

Public Engineering Debates in Vienna

The Regulation of the Iron Gates as a Hungarian State-Building Measure

Impact and Consequences of the Regulation Project

Conclusion


Conclusions


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Index
European Commission; Crimean War; Free Navigation; River History; Cartography