Engineering the Lower Danube
Technology and Territoriality in an Imperial Borderland, Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
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The transformation of the Lower Danube during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is explored through the remaking of two significant areas: the Iron Gates and the delta. Luminita Gatejel argues that these alterations not only changed the river's physical landscape but also reshaped its legal and political identity, highlighting the complex interplay between environmental changes and governance in this vital region of Europe.
