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October 2021, Volume 62, No. 4
Cycling on the Color Line: Race, Technology, and Bicycle Mobilities in the Early Jim Crow South, 1887–1905 | Nathan Cardon
Spinners’ Hands, Imperial Minds: Migrant Labor, Embodied Expertise, and the Failed Transfer of Silk Technology across the Atlantic | Paola Bertucci
Judging the Perle Japonaise: The Techno-Legal Separation of Culture from Nature in 1920s Paris | Kjell D. Ericson
“Contagion by Telephone”: Print Media and Knowledge about Infectious Diseases in Britain, 1880s-1914 | Amelia Bonea
Technology’s Palette: Voyager’s Eyes and the Hyperchromatic Enhancement of Jupiter and Saturn | Elizabeth A. Kessler
The Optical Machine’s Asynchronic Progress: Perceptual Paradigms and 3-D Enhancement Technologies, 1700-1925 | Rod Bantjes
Inventing in a Crisis: Lighting the United States after the 1973 Oil Embargo | Harold D. Wallace Jr.
“The Accumulated Knowledge of a Thousand Generations”: U.S. Mining Engineers as Public Intellectuals, 1895–1920 | Jeffrey Bartos
The Classroom
Seeing History in 2-D: A Tool Kit for Interpreting Images | Cindy Ott
Public History
Storytelling Historians | The Editors
Harari’s World History: Evolution toward Intelligence without Consciousness? | David E. Nye
Book Reviews
Review of Global Medicine in China: A Diasporic History by Wayne Soon | David Luesink
Review of Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India by Andrew B. Liu | John B. Lourdusamy
Review of Remains of the Everyday: A Century of Recycling in Beijing by Joshua Goldstein | Peter Lavelle
Review of Water and the Environmental History of Modern India by Velayutham Saravanan | Aditya Ramesh
Review of Mass Vaccination: Citizens’ Bodies and State Power in Modern China by Mary Augusta Brazelton | Sarah Yu
Review of Jeux d’eaux à La Granja. Les fontaniers français en Espagne au XVIIIe siècle [Water games at La Granja: French plumbers in Spain in the eighteenth century] by Sophie Omère | Antoni Roca-Rosell
Review of Making Marvels: Science and Splendor at the Courts of Europe edited by Wolfram Koeppe | Mark A. Meadow
Review of An Empire Transformed: Remolding Bodies and Landscapes in the Restoration Atlantic by Kate Luce Mulry | Eric H. Ash
Review of Sailing School: Navigating Science and Skill, 1550–1800 by Margaret E. Schotte | Håkon With Andersen
Review of The History of Water Management in the Iberian Peninsula: Between the 16th and 19th Centuries edited by Ana Duarte Rodrigues and Carmen Toribio Marín | Matteo Di Tullio
Review of Water Brings No Harm: Management Knowledge and the Struggle for the Waters of Kilimanjaro by Matthew V. Bender | Nil Disco
Review of The World as an Architectural Project by Hashim Sarkis and Roi Salgueiro Barrio, with Gabriel Kozlowski |Abby Spinak
Review of Caves et celliers dans l’Europe médiévale et moderne [Caverns and cellars in medieval and modern Europe] edited by Clément Alix, Lucie Gaugain, and Alain Salamagne | Ludovic Laloux
Review of Air-Conditioning in Modern American Architecture, 1890–1970 by Joseph M. Siry | Jiat-Hwee Chang
Review of Repairing Infrastructures: The Maintenance of Materiality and Power by Christopher R. Henke and Benjamin Sims | Stefan Krebs
Review of Machine Art in the Twentieth Century by Andreas Broeckmann | Roslyn Lee Hammers
Review of The Long Arm of Moore’s Law: Microelectronics and American Science by Cyrus Mody | David C. Brock
Review of From Insight to Innovation: Engineering Ideas That Transformed America in the Twentieth Century by David P. Billington Jr. | Arthur Daemmrich
Review of British Exploitation of German Science and Technology, 1943–1949 by Charlie Hall | Mario Daniels
Review of Engineering America: The Life and Times of John A. Roebling by Richard Haw | Donald C. Jackson
Review of Mestizo Modernity: Race, Technology, and the Body in Postrevolutionary Mexico by David S. Dalton | Jethro Hernández Berrones
Review of Wires That Bind: Nation, Region, and Technology in the Southwestern United States. 1854–1920 by Torsten Kathke | Casey P. Cater
Review of Crime Dot Com: From Viruses to Vote Rigging, How Hacking Went Global by Geoff White | Julia Gül Erdogan
Review of Rise of the Self-Replicators: Early Visions of Machines, AI and Robots That Can Reproduce and Evolve by Tim Taylor and Alan Dorin | Yulia Frumer
Review of Information: A Historical Companion edited by Ann Blair, Paul Duguid, Anja Silvia Goeing, and Anthony Grafton | Marc Kosciejew
Review of Connected: How a Mexican Village Built Its Own Cell Phone Network by Roberto J. González | Christiane Berth
Review of Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control by Mack Hagood | Andrea F. Bohlman
Review of Robert Paul and the Origins of British Cinema by Ian Christie | Richard Crangle
Review of Pathways into and out of Nuclear Power in Western Europe: Austria, Denmark, Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, and Sweden edited by Astrid Mignon Kirchhoff | Hirofumi Utsumi
Review of Safe Enough? A History of Nuclear Power and Accident Risk by Thomas R. Wellock | Tudor B. Ionescu
Review of The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work by Cara New Daggett | Francesco Gerali
Review of Industrial Development and Manufacturing in the Antebellum Gulf South: A Reevaluation by Michael S. Frawley | Gregory A. Hargreaves
Review of Aluminum Upcycled: Sustainable Design in Historical Perspective by Carl A. Zimring | Finn Arne Jørgensen
Review of Food and Aviation in the Twentieth Century: The Pan American Ideal by Bryce Evans | Shayan S. Lallani
Review of Plants Go to War: A Botanical History of World War II by Judith Sumner | Ingrid de Zwarte
