Special Issue April 2021.
Technology Is Global: The Useful & Reliable Knowledge Debate.
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April 2021, Volume 62, No 2 Special Issue
Technology Is Global: The Useful & Reliable Knowledge Debate
Technology Is Global: The Useful & Reliable Knowledge Debate | DAGMAR SCHÄFER, SIMONA VALERIANI
Timekeepers and Sufi Mystics: Technical Knowledge Bearers of the Ottoman Empire | FEZA GÜNERGUN
Grasping the Body: Physicians, Tailors, and Holy People | SIMONA VALERIANI
Useful & Reliable: Technological Transformation in Colonial India | TIRTHANKAR ROY
Essay
Crisis: The Emergence of Another Hazardous Concept | ROSALIND WILLIAMS
Public History
Contested Heritage in East Asia: Colonial Memory & Technology Sites | JOHANNES-GEERT HAGMANN
How an Imperial Military Laboratory Became a Museum for Peace | DAISUKE KONAGAYA
“Difficult Heritage” & Selective Elision: The Seoul Power Plant | JOHN P. DIMOIA
Book Reviews
Review of Katrina: A History, 1915–2015 by Andy Horowitz | CORNELIS DISCO
Review of On Time: A History of Western Timekeeping by Ken Mondschein | ALEXIS MCCROSSEN
Review of If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore | WILL MARI