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July 2020 VOLUME 61, No 3
Petroleum’s Park: How Oil Shaped the Palisades Interstate Park, 1900-1960 | RAECHEL LUTZ
Making Engineering Visible: Photography and the Politics of Drinking Water in Modern Paris | SEAN WEISS
The New Surgical Amphitheater: Color Television and Medical Education in Postwar America | SUSAN MURRAY
Managing Privacy: Cryptography or Private Networks of Communication in the Nineteenth Century | JEAN-FRANÇOIS FAVA-VERDE
Regulating Innovation: Utility vs. Leisure in Swedish Moped History, 1952-1961 | MARTIN EMANUEL AND PÄR BLOMKVIST
Computer Models and Thatcherist Futures: From Monopolies to Markets in British Telecommunications | JACOB WARD
Contextualizing Colossus: Codebreaking Technology and Institutional Capabilities | THOMAS HAIGH AND MARK PRIESTLY
Producing Electric Light: How Resource Scarcity Affected Light Bulbs, 1880-1914 | HANNA VIKSTRÖM
Landline Natives: Telephone Practices since the 1950s as Innovation | METTE ABILDGAARD AND LEE HUMPHREYS
Book Reviews
Technik als Motor der Modernisierung, edited by Thomas Zoglauer, Karsten Weber and Hans Fries (review) | MIKAEL HÅRD
Contraception: A Concise History, Donna J. Drucker (Review) | CATHERINE MAS
Modern Things On Trial: Islam’s Global And Material Reformation In The Age Of Rida, 1865-1935, Leor Halevi (Review) | FRANCIS ROBINSON
The Stuff of Bits: An Essay on the Materialities of Information, Paul Dourish (review) | MARLENE MANOFF
Barriers Down: How American Power and Free-Flow Policies Shaped Global Media, Diana Lemberg (review) | REBECCA SCALES
Mass Media, Consumerism and National Identity in Postwar Japan, Martyn David Smith (review) | PENELOPE FRANCKS
Technology and the Environment in State-Socialist Hungary: An Economic History, Viktor Pál (review) | LUMINITA GATEJEL
Straßenverkehr und soziale Sichtbarkeit: Das Massenmedium Straße in Chicago 1900-1930, David Sittler (review) | TIINA MÄNNISTÖ-FUNK
Well-Being, Sustainability and Social Development: The Netherlands 1850-2050, Harry Lintsen et al. (review) | HELMUTH TRISCHLER
An Underground Guide to Sewers, or: Down, Through & Out in Paris, London, New York &c., Stephen Halliday (review) | ROSALIND WILLIAMS
Technology and Tradition in Mesoamerica after the Spanish Invasion: Archeological Perspectives, edited by Rani T. Alexander (review) | EDWARD (TED) BEATTY
The Gun in Central Africa: A History of Technology and Politics, Giacomo Macola (review) | BRICE COSSART
The Origins of American Strategic Bombing Theory, Craig Morris (review) | JEREMY BLACK
Battleship Bismarck: A Design and Operational History, William H. Garzke Jr. et al. (review) | STEVEN A. POMEROY
The Eye of War: Military Perception from the Telescope to the Drone, Antoine J. Bousquet (review) | JULIA RAVANIS
Superrealistas. Rayos X y vanguardias artísticas, Ana Lamata Manuel (review) | DANIEL PÉREZ ZAPICO
The Grand Designers: The Evolution of the Airplane in the 20th Century, John D. Anderson Jr. (review) | MARC J. ALSINA
IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon, James Cortada (review) | LARS HEIDE
Fake Silk: The Lethal History of Viscose Rayon, Paul David Blanc (review) | MARK ALDRICH
Radiation Nation: Three Mile Island and the Political Transformation of the 1970s, Natasha Zaretsky (review) | DOLORES L. AUGUSTINE
Big Science Fiction: Kernfusion und Popkultur in den USA, Simon Märkl (review) | JAN-HENRIK MEYER
Engineering the Environment: Phytotrons and the Quest for Climate Control in the Cold War, David P. D. Munns (review) | JOHAN GÄRDEBO
Technocrats of the Imagination: Art, Technology, and the Military-Industrial Avant-Garde, John Beck and Ryan Bishop (review) | W. PATRICK McCRAY
Regenerating Dixie: Electric Energy in the Modern South, Casey P. Cater (review) | R. DOUGLAS HURT
American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750-1865, Jeremy Zallen (review) | R. SHAW BRIDGES
The Train and the Telegraph: A Revisionist History, Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes (review) | EDMUND RUSSELL