Special Issue April 2021. 

Technology Is Global: The Useful & Reliable Knowledge Debate.

Technology and Culture is the leading journal in the history of technology, science, medicine and mathematics; it draws on scholarship in diverse disciplines to publish insightful pieces intended for general readers as well as specialists. It reviews books from around the world.

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April 2021, Volume 62, No 2  Special Issue

Technology Is Global: The Useful & Reliable Knowledge Debate

Technology Is Global: The Useful & Reliable Knowledge Debate | DAGMAR SCHÄFER, SIMONA VALERIANI

Timekeepers and Sufi Mystics: Technical Knowledge Bearers of the Ottoman Empire | FEZA GÜNERGUN

Useful Work: State Demands and Craftsmen’s Social Mobility in Fifteenth-Century China | DAGMAR SCHÄFER

Making and Using Scientific Instruments in Japan: How Scholars and Craftsmen Cooperated, 1781-1853 | TAKEHIKO HASHIMOTO

Introduction and Diffusion: Useful & Reliable Knowledge in Early Modern Industrial Japan | MASAYUKI TANIMOTO

The Codification of Techniques: Between Bureaucracy and the Markets in Early Modern Europe from a Global Perspective | LILIANE HILAIRE-PÉREZ

Grasping the Body: Physicians, Tailors, and Holy People | SIMONA VALERIANI

Useful & Reliable: Technological Transformation in Colonial India | TIRTHANKAR ROY

 

Essay

 

Crisis: The Emergence of Another Hazardous Concept | ROSALIND WILLIAMS

  

Public History

 

Contested Heritage in East Asia: Colonial Memory & Technology Sites | JOHANNES-GEERT HAGMANN

How an Imperial Military Laboratory Became a Museum for Peace | DAISUKE KONAGAYA

“Difficult Heritage” & Selective Elision: The Seoul Power Plant | JOHN P. DIMOIA

Contested tracks to modernity: Negotiating Complex Narratives at the Taiwan Railway Department Park | HSIEN-CHUN WANG

 

Book Reviews

 

Review of Katrina: A History, 1915–2015 by Andy Horowitz | CORNELIS DISCO

Review of Atomic Junction: Nuclear Power in Africa after Independence by Abena Dove Osseo-Asare | DAMILOLA ADEBAYO

Review of Bridging the Seas: The Rise of Naval Architecture in the Industrial Age, 1800–2000 by Larrie D. Ferreiro | APOSTOLOS DELIS

Review of Science, Technology, and Utopias: Women Artists and Cold War America by Christine Filippone | CHARLIE GERE

Review of Kao Gong Ji: The World’s Oldest Encyclopaedia of Technologies translated and commented by Guan Zengjian and Konrad Herrmann | JIANJUN MEI

Review of The English East India Company’s Silk Enterprise in Bengal, 1750–1850: Economy, Empire and Business by Karolina Hutková | APARAJITA MUKHOPADHYAY

Review of Materielle Kultur und Konsum in der Frühen Neuzeit [Material culture and consumption in the early modern era] edited by Julia A. Schmidt-Funke | REINHOLD REITH

Review of Braunschweig und der Kaffee. Die Geschichte des Röstkaffeemarktes von den Anfängen bis in unsere Tage [Braunschweig and coffee: The history of the coffee roasting market from the beginning to the present] by Peter Albrecht | MARGRIT SCHULTE BEERBÜHL

Review of On Time: A History of Western Timekeeping by Ken Mondschein | ALEXIS MCCROSSEN

Review of Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan by Yulia Frumer | DAVID WITTNER

Review of Steps Toward a Philosophy of Engineering: Historico-Philosophical and Critical Essaysby Carl Mitcham | CYRUS C. M.  MODY

Review of The Anthropocene and the Humanities: From Climate Change to a New Age of Sustainability by Carolyn Merchant | HARRY LINTSEN 

Review of Recycling and Reuse in the Roman Economy edited by Chloë N. Duckworth and Andrew Wilson | ALLISON L. C. EMMERSON

Review of America by the Numbers: Quantification, Democracy, and the Birth of National Statistics by Emmanuel Didier | DAN BOUK

Review of A Modern Contagion: Imperialism and Public Health in Iran’s Age of Cholera by Amir A. Afkhami | KIM CLARK

Review of Governing Systems: Modernity and the Making of Public Health in England, 1830–1910by Tom Crook | LESLIE TOMORY

Review of Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom by Sarah A. Seo | PETER NORTON

Review of Sulphuric Utopias: A History of Maritime Fumigation by Lukas Engelmann and Christos Lynteris | BRAD BOLMAN

Review of Testing Hearing: The Making of Modern Aurality edited by Viktoria Tkaczyk, Mara Mills, and Alexandra Hui | GRAEME GOODAY

Review of Easing Pain on the Western Front: American Nurses of the Great War and the Birth of Modern Nursing Practice by Paul E. Stepansky | SASHA MULLALLY

Review of The Circulation of Penicillin in Spain: Health, Wealth and Authority by María Jesús Santesmases | AGATA IGNACIUK

 Review of Making Industrial Pittsburgh Modern: Environment, Landscape, Transportation, and Planning by Edward K. Muller and Joel A. Tarr | PAUL VAN DE LAAR

Review of Cities, Railways, Modernities: London, Paris, and the Nineteenth Century by Carlos López Galviz | DAVID PIKE

Review of Ferrocarril y modernización en Quito: Un cambio dramático entre 1905 y 1922 [The railway and modernization in Quito: A dramatic change between 1905 and 1922] by Wilson Miño Grijalva | J. JUSTIN CASTRO

 Review of Design Technics: Archaeologies of Architectural Practice edited by Zeynep Çelik Alexander and John May | GIORGIO MARFELLA

 Review of Modern Architecture and Climate: Design before Air Conditioning by Daniel Barber | BETSY FREDERICK-ROTHWELL

Review of Engineering the Eternal City: Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth Century Rome by Pamela O. Long | BERT HALL

Review of Mobilités d’ingénieurs en Europe, XVe-XVIIIe siècle [Mobility of engineers in Europe, 15th–18th century] edited by Stéphane Blond, Liliane Hilaire-Pérez, and Michèle Virol | KONSTANTINOS CHATZIS

Review of Les ingénieurs, unité, expansion, fragmentation (XIXe et XXe siècles), Tome 1: La production d’un groupe social [Engineers, unity, expansion, fragmentation (19th and 20thcenturies), volume 1: The production of a social group] edited by Antoine Derouet and Simon Paye | ALAIN P. MICHEL

Review of The Italian Renaissance of Machines by Paolo Galluzzi, trans. Jonathan Mandelbaum | MICHAEL KUCHER

Review of A Rainbow Palate: How Chemical Dyes Changed the West’s Relationship to Food by Carolyn Cobbold | PETER THOMPSON

Review of Berliner Blau: Vom frühneuzeitlichen Pigment zum modernen Hightech-Material[Prussian blue: From early modern pigment to modern high-tech material] by Alexander Kraft | AGUSTÍ NIETO-GALAN

Review of On the Screen: Displaying the Moving Image, 1926–1942 by Ariel Rogers | JOCELYN SZCZEPANIAK-GILLECE

Review of The Radio Hobby, Private Associations, and the Challenge of Modernity in Germany by Bruce B. Campbell | CHRISTIAN HENRICH-FRANKE

Review of The Future of Change: How Technology Shapes Social Revolutions by Ray Brescia | ALLISON PERLMAN

Review of Shakespeare, Technicity, Theatre by W. B. Worthen and Shakespeare, Spectatorship, and the Technologies of Performance by Pascale Aebischer | SARAH KRIGER

Review of If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore | WILL MARI

Review of Wie die Welt in den Computer kam: Zur Entstehung digitaler Wirklichkeit [How the world came to be in the computer: On the creation of digital reality] by David Gugerli | MARTIN SCHMITT