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We are proud to present to you 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.

 

July 2024, Volume 65, No. 3

 

On the Cover

On the Cover: Invasive Sparrows and the American Bird Box | Matthew Holmes

 

 

Debate

The Debate: (Re)thinking Repairs in the Longue Durée | Gianenrico Bernasconi, Guillaume Carnino, Liliane Hilaire-Pérez, and Olivier Raveux

 

 

Research Articles

Between Innovation and Resistance: The Role of Guilds in Early Modern Italian Ribbon Manufacturing | Andrea Caracausi

 

Bird Boxes and Sparrow Traps: The Technological Regulation of Avian Life in the United States | Matthew Holmes

 

Scrapbooks as Sites of Technology: The Women’s Institute and the Material Culture of 1960s Rural England | Cherish Watton and Tiia Sahrakorpi

 

Crucibles of Craft: Home Workshops and Leisurely Striving in Twentieth-Century U.S. Woodworking Magazines | Len Kuffert

 

Visualizing Black Telephone Users: Technological Whiteness and Racial Exclusion in Bell System Advertising | Josh Lauer

Rays of Death and Visions of Life: Ultrasound Narratives, Risk Evaluations, and Prenatal Imaging | Annika Berg

 

 

Historiography

Historiography: Why Historians Should Pay More Attention to Philosophy of Technology | Eric Schatzberg

 

 

Organizational Notes

Da Vinci Medal Address: Material Political Economy | Donald MacKenzie

 

 

Book Reviews

Review of Microhistories of Technology: Making the World by Mikael Hård | Corinna R. Unger

 

Review of The Diffusion of “Small” Western Technologies in the Middle East: Invention, Use and Need in the 19th and 20th Centuries by Uri M. Kupferschmidt | Leor Halevi

 

Review of Moving Crops and the Scales of History by Francesca Bray, Barbara Hahn, John Bosco Lourdusamy, and Tiago Saraiva | Harro Maat

 

Review of Technology in Southeast Asian History by Suzanne Moon | Anto Mohsin

 

Review of Engineering Trouble: US-Chinese Experiences of Professional Discontent, 1905–1945 by Thorben Pelzer | Delphine Spicq

 

Review of African Environmental Crisis: A History of Science for Development by Gufu Oba |Rohini Patel

 

Review of The Cyborg Caribbean: Techno-Dominance in Twenty-First-Century Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican Science Fiction by Samuel Ginsburg | Michael Niblett

 

Review of Mexican Icarus: Aviation and the Modernization of Mexican Identity, 1928–1960 by Peter B. Soland | Michael K. Bess

 

Review of Let There Be Light: How Electricity Made Modern Hong Kong by Mark L. Clifford | Hiroki Shin

 

Review of Modernity at the Movies: Cinema-Going in Buenos Aires and Santiago 1915–1945 by Camila Gatica Mizala | Cecilia Maas

 

Review of Hollywood’s Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power around the Globe by Ross Melnick | Giles Scott-Smith

 

Review of Communications in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire: A Critical History by Burçe Çelik | Sırrı Emrah Üçer

 

Review of Media Ruins: Cambodian Postwar Media Reconstruction and the Geopolitics of Technology by Margaret Jack | Peter Manning

 

Review of In the Land of Marvels: Science, Fabricated Realities, and Industrial Espionage in the Age of the Grand Tour by Paola Bertucci | Alan Marshall

 

Review of Collective Wisdom: Collecting in the Early Modern Academy edited by Anna Marie Roos and Vera Keller | Aurélien Ruellet

 

Review of Scientific Advice to the Nineteenth-Century British State by Roland Jackson | Edward J. Gillin

 

Review of Franklin Ford Collection edited by Dominique Trudel and Juliette De Maeyer | Will Mari

 

Review of Technology and the Common Good: The Unity and Division of a Democratic Society by Allen W. Batteau | Thomas A. Stapleford

 

Review of Nazi Volksgemeinschaft Technology: Gottfried Feder, Fritz Todt, and the Plassenburg Spirit by John C. Guse | Klaus Hentschel

 

Review of The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History by Samuel W. Franklin and The Creativity Complex: Art, Tech, and the Seduction of an Idea by Shannon Steen | Stina Teilmann-Lock

 

Review of The Dangerous Art of Text Mining: A Methodology for Digital History by Jo Guldi | Melvin Wevers

 

Review of The Family Planning Association and Contraceptive Science and Technology in Mid-Twentieth Century Britain by Natasha Szuhan | Agata Ignaciuk

 

Review of Radiophilia by Carolyn Birdsall | RichardLegay

 

Review of Learning with Light and Shadows: Educational Lantern and Film Projection, 1860–1990 edited by Nelleke Teughels and Kaat Wils | Deac Rossell

 

Review of Planetarien: Wunder der Technik – Techniken des Wunderns by Helen Ahner | Hans-Christian von Herrmann

 

Review of Meilensteineder Rechentechnik: Band 1: Analog- und Digitalrechner, Automaten und Roboter, wissenschaftliche Instrumente, Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitungen and Meilensteineder Rechentechnik: Band 2: Erfindung des Computers, Rechnerbau in Europa, weltweite Entwicklungen, zweisprachiges Fachwörterbuch, Bibliografie by Herbert Bruderer | Matthias Röhr

Review of How Computers Entered the Classroom, 1960–2000: Historical Perspectives edited by Carmen Flury and Michael Geiss | Stephen Petrina

 

Review of The Philosopher of Palo Alto: Mark Weiser, Xerox PARC, and the Original Internet of Things by John Tinnell | Andreas Hepp

 

Review of The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence by Matteo Pasquinelli | Ginevra Sanvitale

 

Review of Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism edited by Kathryn Conrad, Cóilín Parsons, and Julie McCormick Weng | Hamid Farahmandian

 

Review of Im Medienlabor der US-amerikanischen Industrieforschung: Die gemeinsamen Wurzeln von Massenmedien und Bürokratie 1870–1950 by Nadine Taha | Felix Selgert

 

Review of Media and the Mind: Art, Science, and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700–1830 by Matthew Daniel Eddy | Manon C. Williams

 

Review of Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia by Victor Seow | Aleksandra Kobiljski

 

Review of Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling by Jamie L. Jones | Amy Kohout

 

Review of Atomic Environments: Nuclear Technologies, the Natural World, and Policymaking,1945–1960 by Neil S. Oatsvall | E. Jerry Jessee

 

Review of British Nuclear Weapons and the Test Ban: Squaring the Circle of Defence and Arms Control, 1974–1982 by John R. Walker | Christoph Laucht

 

Review of The Alternative Modernity of the Bicycle in British and French Literature,1880–1920 by Una Brogan | Harry Oosterhuis

 

Review of The Dallas Story: The North American Aviation Plant and Industrial Mobilizationduring World War II by Terrance Furgerson | David Foster

 

Review of Dark Star: A New History of the Space Shuttle by Matthew H. Hersch | Michael J. Neufeld

 

Review of Architecture’s Model Environments by Lisa Moffitt | Kristine Grønning Ericson

 

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