We are proud to present the next issue of Technology and Culture, which includes reviews of many books from around the world. Technology and Culture is the leading journal in the history of technology; it draws on scholarship in diverse disciplines to publish insightful pieces intended for general readers as well as specialists.
January 2021
VOLUME 62, No 1
Rural Revolt: Power Line Protests and the Alternative Technology Movement in the United States, 1970s | RYAN DRISKELL TATE
Hacking Airspace: The Insurgent Technology of Brazil’s Hot Air Balloons, 1970-Present | FELIPE FERNANDES CRUZ
Pink Chat: Networked Sex Work Before the Internet | JEFF NAGY
Railway Imperialism Revisited: The Failed Line from the Macao to Guangzhou | HUGO PEREIRA
Upscaling Forest Waste: The French Quest for Fuel Autarky after World War I | MARCIN KRASNODĘBSKI
Technologies of Cold War Diplomacy: Transforming Postwar Japan | JESSAMYN R. ABEL
Why Wire Mattered: Building U.S. Networked Infrastructures, 1845-1910 | GLORIA CALHOUN
The Fishery Technology Complex: From Mapping to Depletion of Pacific Ocean Perch, 1880s-1970s | COLIN LEVINGS
Review Essays
Writing Technology into History | EDA KRANAKIS
On Our Own Terms: Towards a History of Arab Technological Landscapes | SHOROUK EL HARIRY
Book Reviews
Review of Collecting Experiments: Making Big Data Biology by Bruno J. Strasser | DOMINIC J. BERRY
Review of Electric Light: An Architectural History by Sandy Isenstadt | ABIGAIL HARRISON MOORE
Review of Information Fantasies: Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China by Xiao Liu | LIANG YAO
Review of The Technical Delusion: Electronics, Power, Insanity by Jeffrey Sconce | NICOLAS HENCKES
Review of Existential Threats: American Apocalyptic Beliefs in the Technological Era by Lisa Vox | STEPHEN P. WELDON
Review of Políticas de ciencia, tecnología e innovación en la Argentina de la posdictadura [Science, technology and innovation policies in post-dictatorship Argentina] edited by Diego Aguiar et al. | GISELA MATEOS
Hermione Giffard
Managing Editor, Technology and Culture