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January 2023, Volume 64, No. 1
On The Cover

On the Cover: Reading Ordinary Photographs | Scott Kushner

Research Articles

Controlling Crowds: On the Technological Management of Entertainment Audiences | Scott Kushner

Oxygen Sense: Creating Embodied Knowledge to Promote Health Innovation in the Royal Air Force, 1939-45 | James Esposito

Built on the Hands of Women: Data, Automation, and Gender in the West German Financial Industry | Corinna Schlombs

Are Carcasses Political? German Veterinarians and the Modernization of Rendering Technology, 1864–1940 | Chad B. Denton

Interrupted Conversations: Gender and Telephone Use in Mexico, 1930s–70s | Christiane Berth

Pure White Bread? Bleached Flour, Contestations, and Regulation, 1900‒50 | Arnaud Page

“Mr. Phonograph, Are You There?” Mechanical Failure and Technological Determinism, 1877–1900 | J. Martin Vest

Essay

Hidden Connections: The Global History of Jungle Commodities | David Pretel

Book Reviews

Review of Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present by Thomas J. Misa | Emanuela Scarpellini

Review of The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information by Craig Robertson | Eva Hemmungs Wirtén

Review of AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines edited by Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal, and Sarah Dillon | Ronald R. Kline

Review of Die Digitalisierung der Kreditwirtschaft: Computereinsatz in den Sparkassen der Bundesrepublik und der DDR 1957–1991 by Martin Schmitt | Detlef Krause

Review of Virtually Amish: Preserving Community at the Internet’s Margins by Lindsay Ems | Steven M. Nolt

Review of The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States by Brian Hochman | P. Arun

Review of Surveillance Capitalism in America edited by Josh Lauer and Kenneth Lipartito | Dolores E. Janiewski

Review of A Vulnerable System: The History of Information Security in the Computer Age by Andrew Stewart | Rebecca Slayton

Review of Schools and Screens: A Watchful History by Victoria Cain | Richard Butsch

Review of Early Cinema, Modernity and Visual Culture: The Imaginary of the Balkans by Ana Grgić | Alexander Donev

Review of The Stone and the Wireless: Mediating China, 1861–1906 by Shaoling Ma | Alina Scotti

Review of Television at Work: Industrial Media and American Labor by Kit Hughes | Blake Atwood

Review of Movie Workers: The Women Who Made British Cinema by Melanie Bell | Lisa Smithstead

Review of Listening in the Field: Recording and the Science of Birdsong by Joeri Bruyninckx | Rachel Mundy

Review of The Age of Electroacoustics: Transforming Science and Sound by Roland Wittje | Susan Schmidt-Hornig

Review of Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music by Kyle Devine and Audible Infrastructures: Music, Sound, Media edited by Kyle Devine and Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier | Keisuke Yamada

Review of Flying Camelot: The F-15, the F-16, and the Weaponization of Fighter Pilot Nostalgia by Michael W. Hankins | Thomas C. Lassman

Review of by Stealth: The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft by Peter Westwick | Dimitrios Ziakkas

Review of Inspectors for Peace: A History of the International Atomic Energy Agency by Elisabeth Roehrlich | Austin R. Cooper

Review of Cold War Civil Defence in Western Europe: Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Survival and Preparedness edited by Marie Cronqvist, Rosanna Farbøl, and Casper Sylvest | Victoria Harms

Review of Loath to Print: The Reluctant Scientific Author, 1500-1750 by Nicole Howard | Rienk Vermij

Review of Ingenuity in the Making: Matter and Technique in Early Modern Europe edited by Richard J. Oosterhoff, José Ramón Marcaida, and Alexander Marr | Karel Davids

Review of Working with Paper: Gendered Practices in the History of Knowledge edited by Carla Bittel, Elaine Leong, and Christine von Oertzen | Bonnie Mak

Review of Crafts and Craftsmen in Pre-colonial Eastern India: Technology and Culture by Asha Shukla Choubey | Thamarai Selvan Kannan

Review of Hybrid Practices: Art in Collaboration with Science and Technology in the Long 1960s edited by David Cateforis, Steven Duval, and Shepherd Steiner | Elsa de Smet

Review of The Squares: US Physical and Engineering Scientists in the Long 1970s by Cyrus C.M. Mody | Barbara Hof

Review of Beyond the Lab and the Field: Infrastructures as Places of Knowledge Production Since the Late Nineteenth Century edited by Eike-Christian Heine and Martin Meiske | Thomas Kaiserfeld

Review of Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World’s First Bullet Train by Jessamyn R. Abel | Morris Low

Review of Transnational Railway Cultures: Trains in Music, Literature, Film, and Visual Art edited by Benjamin Fraser and Steven Spalding | Hugo Silveira Pereira

Review of In Their Own Words: Forgotten Women Pilots of Early Aviation by Fred Erisman | Caroline Johnson

Review of La désindustrialisation de la Lorraine du fer by Pascal Raggi | Marion Fontaine

Review of Ersatzstoffe im Zeitalter der Weltkriege: Geschichte, Bedeutung Perspektiven edited by Elisabeth Vaupel | Rouven Janneck

Review of Shredding Paper: The Rise and Fall of Maine’s Mighty Paper Industry by Michael G. Hillard | Thomas MacMillan

Review of A History of Cold War Industrialisation: Finnish Shipbuilding between East and West by Saara Matala | René Taudal Poulsen

Review of The Defoliation of America: Agent Orange Chemicals, Citizens, and Protests by Amy M. Hay | David Kinkela

Review of Conflicted American Landscapes by David E. Nye | Joel A. Tarr

Review of Climatic Media: Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control by Yuriko Furuhata | Togo Tsukuhara

Review of A New Ecological Order: Development and the Transformation of Nature in Eastern Europe edited by Ştefan Dorondel and Stelu Şerban | Jawad Daheur

Review of Fixing Niagara Falls: Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World’s Most Famous Waterfall by Daniel Macfarlane | Donald C. Jackson

Review of Before the Flood: The Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil by Jacob Blanc | Eve Buckley

Review of Nuclear Suburbs: Cold War Technoscience and the Pittsburgh Renaissance by Patrick Vitale | Alyssa Ribeiro

Review of Designs of Destruction: The Making of Monuments in the Twentieth Century by Lucia Allais | N. Bucky Stanton

Review of Laboratory of Deficiency: Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900-1950s by Natalie Lira | Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska

Review of Acquired Tastes: Stories about the Origins of Modern Food edited by Benjamin R. Cohen, Michael S. Kideckel, and Anna Zeide | Ai Hisano

Review of Artificial Color: Modern Food and Racial Fiction by Catherine Keyser | Katharina Vester

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