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We are proud to present the next issue, which includes reviews of 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.
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 Essays by 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, 1830–1910 by 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 20th centuries), 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