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LATEST PUBLICATIONS

SCHOLARLY JOURNALS

The Eindhoven History Lab hosts the editorship of the international scholarly journals Technology and Culture and ICON.

TECHNOLOGY & CULTURE

Technology and Culture cover Technology and Culture is the quarterly of the Society for the History of Technology SHOT. In 2020-2025 Ruth Oldenziel succeeds Suzanne Moon (University of Oklahoma) as editor-in-chief of this pre-eminent history of technology journal.  The first issue prepared by her Eindhoven team is the 2020 July issue.

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ICON

 ICON is the bi-annual the journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology ICOHTEC. Hermione Giffard serves as editor-in-chief.

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EDITORSHIP OF BOOK SERIES

The Eindhoven History Lab & the Foundation SHT have edited several bookseries.

CYCLING CITIES

Our Sustainable Urban Mobility/ Cycling Cities books present historically-informed policy studies supporting today’s sustainable urban mobility transition. Why did motorized traffic historically replace sustainable walking and cycling, and how can the latter be empowered today to create a more sustainable future?

Since the Cycling Cities opening publication (research agenda & case studies on Amsterdam, Utrecht, Enschede, Eindhoven, Southeast-Limburg; Antwerp; Copenhagen; Hannover; Stockholm, Malmö; Basel; Manchester; Budapest; and Lyon), additional studies have been published on Arnhem/Nijmegen, Munich, The Hague, Rotterdam, and Johannesburg.

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MAKING EUROPE. TECHNOLOGY & TRANSFORMATIONS 1850-2000

6-volume book series: Making Europe. Technology and Transformations 1850-2000 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013-2019). Series editors: Johan Schot & Phil Scranton. Winner of the EASST Freeman Prize.

The book series is the capstone on one-and-a-half decade of transnational research collaboration in the first Tensions of Europe research program on Technology and European integration/ fragmentation 1950-2000. A team of 15 authors synthesized the research findings in this prize-winning series. The work was initiated and coordinated by the Foundation SHT.

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TECHNOLOGY & EUROPEAN HISTORY SERIES

Amsterdam University Press’s Technology and European History series presented scholarship about the role of technology in 19th and 20th Century European history. Series editors: Johan Schot & Ruth Oldenziel

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GESCHIEDENIS VAN DE TECHNIEK IN NEDERLAND

This 13-volume book series (in Dutch) was a collaborative effort of over 70 historians in the Netherlands and was pivotal to the establishment of the field of history of technology in the Netherlands. It was published in two sets: a 6-volume book series: Geschiedenis van de Techniek in Nederland  De wording van een moderne samenleving 1800-1890 (Walburg Pers 1992-1995) and a 7-volume series Techniek in Nederland in de 20e eeuw (Walburg Pers 1998-2003). Volume 7 of the 2nd series was published in English: Technology and the making of the Netherlands. The Age of Contested Modernization, 1850-1970 (MIT Press, 2010).

SOME SELECTED BOOKS

Chernobyl and Its Afterlives

Karena Kalmbach, The Meanings of a Disaster. Chernobyl and Its Afterlives in Britain and France (Berghahn, 2020)

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Sustainable Urban Mobility since 1850

Martin Emanuel, Frank Schipper, and Ruth Oldenziel (eds.), A U-Turn to the Future. Sustainable Urban Mobility since 1850 (Berghahn 2020)

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Engineers & Societal Challenges 1815-2015

Erik van der Vleuten, Ruth Oldenziel, Mila David. Engineering the future, understanding the past: A social history of technology (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017).

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Europe’s Infrastructure Transition 1815-2015

Per Högselius, Arne Kaijser, Erik van der Vleuten. Europe’s Infrastructure Transition: Economy, War, Nature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

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The Making of Europe’s Critical Infrastructure

Per Högselius, Anique Hommels, Arne Kaijser, Erik van der Vleuten (eds.). The Making of Europe’s Critical Infrastructure: Common Connections and Shared Vulnerabilities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)

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Technology and the making of the Netherlands

Johan Schot, Harry Lintsen, and Arie Rip (eds.), Technology and the making of the Netherlands. The Age of Contested Modernization, 1850-1970 (MIT Press, 2010)

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ALL CA. 100 BOOKS published since the 1980s: see the Foundation SHT website and webshop

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