Technology and Culture 65.1 now published!

We are proud to present the next issue of Technology and Culture, the leading journal in the history of technology; we draw on scholarship from diverse disciplines and publish insightful pieces intended for general readers as well as specialists.

January 2024, Volume 65, No. 1

On the Cover

Showcasing China’s On-the-Job Training in Rural Africa | Andrea Azizi Kifyasi

Debate

Seeds as Deep-Time Technologies | Courtney Fullilove

Research Articles

How Effective Was the Global-South Knowledge Exchange? The Chinese-Funded Medical Projects in Tanzania, 1968–1990s | Andrea Azizi Kifyasi

Prison Papermaking: Colonial Ideals of Industrial Experimentation in India | Amanda Lanzillo

Who Invented the Possum? What Historians Can Learn from Disabled Innovation in Britain’s Responaut Communities | Coreen McGuire

Creating a User-Inventor Community: How Disabled People Innovated and Marketed Disability in Early Nineteenth-Century America | Laurel Daen

The Launch of a Political Satellite: Constructing the Ming Tombs Reservoir and “Mass Engineering” in Communist China | Yejing Ge and Weimin Xiong

Fixing the Huai River: Technology of Labor Formation in Maoist China, 1950–-53 | Yujie Li

As Ceaseless as the Sea: How Modern Construction Machines Disrupted Canadian Senses and Sensibilities, 1870s–1940s | Gilberto Fernandes

“One of the Grand Works of the World”: Walt Whitman’s Advocacy for the Brooklyn Waterworks, 1856–59 | Stephanie M. Blalock, Kevin McMullen, Stefan Schöberlein, and Jason Stacy

European Technical Democracy? How Consumer Associations Did—or Did Not—Shape the 1980s Automotive Environmental Standards| Alice Milor

How Prepaid Billing in Italy Helped Shape the Global Diffusion of Mobile Phones | Jane Vincent and Leopoldina Fortunati

Public History

Introducing Barbenheimer | Ruth Oldenziel

Nuclear Imaginaries and Power in Oppenheimer | Aimee Slaughter

Feminism and Capitalism under the Nuclear Cloud & Barbie | Rachel Maines

Essay

“Modernism with a Soul”: Designing and Building Communities for Corporate and Civic Life | Stuart W. Leslie

Book Reviews

Review of Technology, Novelty, and Luxury ed. by Artemis Yagou | Peter McNeil

Review of Velocipedomania: A Cultural History of the Velocipede in France by Corry Cropper and Seth Whidden | Claire Pelgrims

Review of When the Air Became Important: A Social History of the New England and Lancashire Textile Industries by Janet Greenlees | Viswanathan Venkataraman

Review of Women in the Sky: Gender and Labor in the Making of Modern Korea by Hwasook Nam | Youngju Lee

Review of Embodied Engineering: Gendered Labor, Food Security, and Taste in Twentieth-Century Mali by Laura Ann Twagira | Devon Golaszewski

Review of Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad by Miriam Thaggert | Jason Barrett-Fox

Review of Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in Design by Kristina Wilson | Amy Sue Bix

Review of Oil Beach: How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond by Christina Dunbar-Hester | Michael Camp

Review of Making Machines of Animals: The International Livestock Exposition by Neal A. Knapp | Eva Rivas Sada

Review of Agrarian Development in Colonial India: The British and Bihar by Peter Robb | Debojyoti Das

Review of Globalizing the Soybean: Fat, Feed, and Sometimes Food, c. 1900–1950 by Ines Prodöhl | Caroline Kreysel, Nathaly Yumi da Silva

Review of Powering American Farms: The Overlooked Origins of Rural Electrification by Richard F. Hirsh | Abby Spinak

Review of Apartheid’s Leviathan: Electricity and the Power of Technological Ambivalence by Faeeza Ballim | Emanuel Lukio Mchome

Review of L’énergie des marées: Hier, aujourd’hui, demain ed. by Ewan Sonnic | Anaël Marrec

Review of The Atomic Archipelago: US Nuclear Submarines and Technopolitics of Risk in Cold War Italy by Davide Orsini | Elisabetta Bini

Review of Land of Nuclear Enchantment: A New Mexican History of the Nuclear Weapons Industry by Lucie Genay | Hugh Gusterson

Review of Nuclear Russia: The Atom in Russian Politics and Culture by Paul R. Josephson | Ethan Pollock

Review of Suburban Empire: Cold War Militarization in the US Pacific by Lauren Hirshberg | M. X. Mitchell

Review of The Politics and Policies of European Economic Integration, 1850–1914 by Yaman Kouli and Léonard Laborie | Vincent Lagendijk

Review of Engineering the Lower Danube: Technology and International Cooperation in an Imperial Borderland by Luminita Gatejel | Stelu Şerban

Review of Forming the Modern Turkish Village: Nation Building and Modernization in Rural Turkey during the Early Republic by Özge Sezer | Heinrich Hartmann

Review of Technici en de totalitaire verleiding: Het Technisch Gilde en de ‘volkse gemeenschap’ [Technicians and the totalitarian temptation: The Technical Guild and the “people’s community”] by Hans Schippers | Harry Lintsen

Review of The Republic of Skill: Artisan Mobility, Innovation, and the Circulation of Knowledge in Premodern Europe ed. by David Garrioch | Oliver Gunning

Review of Les débuts du système suisse des brevets d’invention (1873–1914) by Nicolas Chachereau | Véronique Pouillard

Review of American Independent Inventors in an Era of Corporate R&D by Eric S. Hintz | Alexander Donges

Review of Seduced by Radium: How Industry Transformed Science in the American Marketplace by Maria Rentetzi | Vivien Hamilton

Review of Oceans Under Glass: Tank Craft & the Sciences of the Sea by Samantha Muka | Jennifer Hubbard

Review of History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine in India ed. by Suvobrata Sarkar | Aparajita Mukhopadhyay

Review of Homi J. Bhabha: A Life by Bakhtiar K. Dadabhoy | Souvik Kar

Review of The New Real: Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji by Jonathan E. Abel | Jamie Coates

Review of Building Chinese Braille with Chinese Characteristics by Huang Nai | Cong Cai, Di Wu

Review of News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900–1945 by Heidi J. S. Tworek | Heather Gumbert

Review of The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal by Laine Nooney | Zachary Loeb

Review of Van Gogh TV’s “Piazza Virtuale”: The Invention of Social Media at documenta IX in 1992 by Tilman Baumgärtel | Katie Mackinnon

Review of Soundtracked Books from the Acoustic Era to the Digital Age: A Century of “Books That Sing” by Justin St. Clair | Sara Tanderup Linkis

Review of Staging, Playing, Pyrotechnics and Magic: Conventions of Performance in Early English Theatre by Philip Butterworth | W. B. Worthen

Review of Une histoire de la cybernétique en France (1948–1975) by Ronan Le Roux | Dominique Trudel

Review of Language and the Rise of the Algorithm by Jeffrey M. Binder | Tomas Petricek

Review of The Built Environment through the Prism of the Colonial Periodical Press ed. by Alice Santiago Faria, Anne Shelley, and Sandra Ataíde Lobo | Mari Hvattum

Review of Firepower: How Weapons Shaped Warfare by Paul Lockhart | Kaushik Roy