Overview
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
- Discusses how people around the world challenged the production techniques and products brought by globalization
- Invites readers to view the history of technology and material culture through the lens of diversity
- Offers examples of colonized peoples resisting the tools of their subjugation
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology (PSHST)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Nineteenth-Century Ways of Life
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Twentieth-Century Improvisations
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Postwar Innovations
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“Among the efforts to understand globalisation and to write global histories in new and diverse perspectives, this work will stand out for its critical engagement with the question of technology and many presumed directionalities and inevitabilities thereof. It is bound to provoke varied responses and to inspire fresh researches on less explored localities and dimensions—perhaps with even less positing of Europe as the polestar.” (Professor John Bosco Lourdusamy, Indian Institute of Technology Madras)
“Granitic ideas of Western technology and experts conquering the world come here to a lethal end. Instead, a complex mosaic of micro and local universes of silent, unnamed, and creative contributors to technological landscapes emerges. The book is a feast of ordinary people in the “Global South,” making the world through ordinary actions and technologies. The impressive variety of unusual sources highlights historical cases rarely addressed by scholarship.” (Professor Stefania Gallini, Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Microhistories of Technology
Book Subtitle: Making the World
Authors: Mikael Hård
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22813-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-22812-4Published: 21 February 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-22815-5Published: 21 February 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-22813-1Published: 20 February 2023
Series ISSN: 2730-972X
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9738
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 290
Topics: Modern History, History of Technology, Globalization, Imperialism and Colonialism