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Creating the ‘New Europe’ through Postal Services / Introduction
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List of Abbreviations
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
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Part I: The European Postal and Telecommunications Union – An Axis Initiative for the “New Postal Europe” (1940-1942)
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Chapter I: Technocratic traditions and the new political regime
International infrastructure cooperation and technocratism
The New Europe’ propaganda
From propaganda to concrete projects: conflict or cooperation?
Chapter II: German-Italian preparations: A cooperation with conflicts (1940-1942)
The German actors: between life-long public servants to fast climbers in the profession
Setting the agenda to create a European postal union within the Reichspostministerium (1940-1941)
Presenting the project to the world outside the Reichspost
The European Postal and Telecommunications Union as an Axis project – From a working group for European telecommunications to a European postal union (1940-1941)
Chapter III: From bilateral to multilateral – making the initiative ‘European’ (1941-1942)
Bilateral agreements as a tool of integrating the occupied and dependent countries into the EPTU
Opening the envisioned union to the rest of Europe: Successes and failures
Conclusion
145–204
Part II: The European Postal Congress (October 1942)
145–204
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Chapter I: Hosting a European postal congress with Europe at war
A technocratic congress in buildings with war stories
The opening session and the discursive framework of the congress
The first general assembly and the organisational frame of the congress
Chapter II: Building a post, telegraphy and telecommunications organisation for the ‘New Europe’ and defining the standards of the ‘New Postal Europe’: Old wine in new bottles?
The organisation of the European Postal and Telecommunications Union between continuities and discontinuities with the Universal Postal Union
The ‘New Postal Europe’ as a ‘German Postal Europe’?
The closing session and the return of political rhetoric
Chapter III: Promoting post, telegraphy and telecommunications cooperation beyond the Vienna congress
Informing the experts and the users of the new postal regime
The view on the European Postal and Telecommunications Union from the outside
Stamps as messengers of the European Postal and Telecommunications Union
Conclusion
205–272
Part III: End of the war, end of the European postal area? (1943-1959)
205–272
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Chapter I: Continuing the European Postal and Telecommunications Union’s work under changing conditions
Implementing the European Postal and Telecommunications Union’s agreement
Continuing the standardisation efforts within the European Postal and Telecommunications Union
Keeping the union together and enlarging it
Chapter II: From the Second World War to the Cold War: The end of the EPTU and the creation of two European postal unions
A last failed attempt to keep the European Postal and Telecommunications Union going – the congress planned for 1944
New regimes in Europe, new initiatives for restricted postal unions
Chapter III: European post, telegraphy and telecommunications cooperation in the post-war Europe: New times – new standards?
Continuities in technocratic questions, discontinuities in political aspects
Stamps – still (not) the messenger of cooperation
Actors in the post-war postal Europe and their connection to the European Postal and Telecommunications Union
Conclusion
273–282
General Conclusion
273–282
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283–300
Appendix
283–300
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301–312
Bibliography
301–312
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313–320
Sources
313–320
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List of Tables
321–321
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List of Figures
322–322
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Creating the ‘New Europe’ through Postal Services , page 13 - 44
Introduction
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Sabrina Proschmann
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doi.org/10.5771/9783748936626-13
ISBN print: 978-3-7560-0411-9
ISBN online: 978-3-7489-3662-6
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