Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations viii
4. Abbreviations x
5. Introduction. Iron Landscapes 1
6. Chapter 1. Forging a Nation from the Tracks: Railway Construction and Representation in Interwar Czechoslovakia 25
7. Chapter 2. The Heart of Europe and Its Periphery: Travelling and Travel Writing 64
8. Chapter 3. ‘Germanized Territories’ or ‘Pure German Soil’? The National Conflict on the Railways 102
9. Chapter 4. Stations between the National and the Cosmopolitan: Railway Buildings and De-Austrianization 137
10. Chapter 5. ‘Bratislava to Prague in 4h 51min’: Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism and the Slovenská strela 163
11. Conclusion 187
12. Appendix. Tables: Nationality Statistics of Czechoslovak Railway Workers in 1923 196
13. Bibliography 199
14. Index 217