Engineering the Lower Danube by Luminita Gatejel - 9789633865798

Engineering the Lower DanubeTechnology and Territoriality in an Imperial Borderland, Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries\nAuthor(s): Luminita Gatejel\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Central European University Press, Hungary\nImprint: Central European University Press\nISBN-13: 9789633865798, 978-9633865798\nSynopsis\nThe Lower Danubethe stretch of Europes second longest river between the Romanian-Serbian border and the confluence to the Black Seawas effectively transformed during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In describing this lengthy undertaking, Luminita Gatejel proposes that remaking two key stretchesthe Iron Gates and the deltanot only physically altered the river but also redefined it in a legal and political sense. \n\nSince the late eighteenth century, military conflicts and peace treaties changed the nature of sovereignty over the area, as the expansionist tendencies of the Habsburg and British Empires encountered rival Ottoman and Russian imperial plans..