Research Catalog

Title

The Danube : a cultural history / Andrew Beattie.

Author

Beattie, Andrew.

Publication

Oxford : Signal, 2010.

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Details

Description

xx, 266 p. : ill., maps; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Landscapes of the imagination

Uniform Title

Landscapes of the imagination.

Subjects

• Local history
• History
• Danube River Valley > Civilization
• Danube River > History

Genre/Form

• History
• Local history

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-257) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. One Rising River -- From the Black Forest to Passau -- ch. One Through the Black Forest and Swabia -- In the Beginning -- Castles and Monasteries in the Swabian Jura -- Sigmaringen -- Ulm: Spires and Boxes -- ch. Two Through Bavaria -- From Ulm to Ingolstadt: a Leaping Horse and a Decisive Battle -- Ingolstadt -- Ingolstadt to Regensburg: a Navigable River for the First Time -- Regensburg: Sausages and Spires -- Regensburg to Passau: Myths and Legends in Upper Bavaria -- Song of the Nibelungs -- Passau: "In all of Germany I never saw a town so beautiful" -- pt. Two Blue Danube -- Passau to Bratislava -- ch. Three Through Linz and Upper Austria -- Into Austria -- Linz and Mauthausen: Austria's Nazi Legacy -- ch. Four Through Vienna and Lower Austria -- "A fierce, impatient and unkindly flood": the Strudengau Rapids -- Maria Taferl, Pochlarn and Melk -- Wachau: Heartland of the Austrian Danube -- Approaching Vienna: Stein und Krems and Tulln -- Klosterneuburg: the Monastery Abandoned by the Danube -- Vienna: City of the Blue Danube -- Napoleon on the Danube -- ch. Five Through the Burgenland to Slovakia -- East from Vienna: the Marchfeld -- Hainburg to Devin and Bratislava: Through the Former Iron Curtain -- pt. Three Into the Balkans -- Bratislava to Belgrade -- ch. Six Bratislava and the Slovak-Hungarian Borderlands -- "East of Vienna, the Orient Begins" -- Bratislava: "a different cast had streamed on stage" -- Beyond Bratislava: the Gabcikovo Dam -- Komarom/Komarno: Fortress City on the Danube -- ch. Seven Through the Hungarian Uplands -- Esztergom: "a celestial city in a painting" -- Danube Bend -- Vac -- Szentendre -- ch. Eight Budapest and the Heart of Hungary -- "Pearl of the Danube" -- Roman and Medieval Budapest -- Turks in Budapest -- Habsburg Budapest: Expansion and Revolution -- Budapest since 1918: Decadence, Tragedy, Dictatorship and Democracy -- Along the Edge of the Great Hungarian Plain: Budapest to Mohacs -- ch. Nine Through the Former Yugoslavia -- Europe's Most Recent War Zone -- Mohacs to Vukovar -- Into Serbia: Vukovar to Belgrade -- Belgrade: "One of the ugliest cities imaginable" -- pt. Four Gorge Plain and Delta -- From Belgrade to the Black Sea -- ch. Ten Eastern Serbia and the Gorges -- Leaving Belgrade: the Great Fortress at Smederevo -- Iron Gates and Kazan Gorges -- Beneath the Waters: the Submerged Villages and Islands of the Flooded Gorges -- Above the Waters: from Veliko Gradiste to the Iron Gates Barrage -- Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Kladovo, and Trajan's Bridge -- ch. Eleven Touching Bulgaria -- East from Drobeta-Turnu Severin to Vidin -- Vidin to Ruse: along the edge of Thrace -- Ruse, Girgiu and Silistra -- ch. Twelve Through Eastern Romania -- Silistra to Braila -- Danube Canal -- Braila and Galati: the Scent of the Sea -- Danube Navigation Commissions -- East from Galati -- ch. Thirteen Delta and the Black Sea -- Land of Reeds and Marshes -- Bratul Chilia and Ismail -- Bratul Sfantu Gheorghe and Halmyris -- Bratul Sulina and the Black Sea.

ISBN

• 9781904955665 (pbk.)
• 1904955665 (pbk.)

OCLC

619953562

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library