Research Catalog

Title

The European Commission of the Danube, 1856-1948 : an experiment in international administration / by Constantin Ardeleanu.

Author

Ardeleanu, Constantin

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

xii, 379 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

"In The European Commission of the Danube, 1856-1948 Constantin Ardeleanu offers a history of the world's second international organisation, an innovative techno-political institution established by Europe's Concert of Powers to remove insecurity from the Lower Danube. Delegates of rival empires worked together to 'correct' a vital European transportation infrastructure, and to complete difficult hydraulic works they gradually transformed the Commission into an actor of regional and international politics. As an autonomous and independent organ, it employed a complex transnational bureaucracy and regulated shipping along the Danube through a comprehensive set of internationally accepted rules and procedures. The Commission is portrayed as an effective experimental organisation, taken as a model for further cooperation in the international system."--

Series Statement

Balkan studies library, 1877-6272 ; volume 27

Uniform Title

Balkan studies library ; v. 27.

Subject

• Commission européenne du Danube
• Shipping > Danube River > History
• Shipping > Government policy > History. > Europe
• Regulation of rivers and lakes
• Shipping
• Shipping > Government policy
• Danube River > Regulation > History
• Danube River
• Europe

Genre/Form

• History.
• Informational works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Russophobia, Free Trade and Maritime Insecurity -- The Danube Question and the Making of Two River Commissions -- A Quest for Authority and Autonomy -- 'Civilising and Disciplining Nature' -- On Money, Tolls and Standards -- Threats, Opportunities and Institutional Survival -- On Transnational Bureaucrats and Rulemaking -- The Lower Danube and Romanian Nation-Making -- Europolis -- from a Piratical Republic to a Collective Colony -- Between Experimentalism and Anachronism the Road to the Abolishment of the European Commission of the Danube.

Call Number

JFE 21-3224

ISBN

• 9789004412538
• 9004412530

LCCN

2019059235

OCLC

1129848945

Author

Ardeleanu, Constantin, author.

Title

The European Commission of the Danube, 1856-1948 : an experiment in international administration / by Constantin Ardeleanu.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Balkan studies library, 1877-6272 ; volume 27

Balkan studies library ; v. 27.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Ardeleanu, Constantin. European Commission of the Danube, 1856-1948 Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020] 9789004425965 (DLC) 2019059236

Research Call Number

JFE 21-3224