A Global History of Technology, 1850-2000

Project Information

GLOBAL-HOT

Grant agreement ID: 742631

DOI

10.3030/742631

Project closed

EC signature date 26 June 2017

Start date 1 October 2017

End date 30 September 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 499 789,00

EU contribution

€ 2 499 789,00

Coordinated by

TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DARMSTADT
Germany

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (16)

Instandhaltung und Reparatur als Rückgrat kolonialer Eisenbahnen. Zentrale und mobile Werkstätten und Krankenstationen im ivorischen Wald

Author(s): David Drengk
Published in: Technikgeschichte, Issue 89/2, 2022, Page(s) 149.180, ISSN 0040-117X
Publisher: Nomos
DOI: 10.5771/0040-117x-2022-2-149

The Soviet City as a Landscape in the Making: Planning, Building and Appropriating Samarkand, c. 1960s – 80s

Author(s): Jonas van der Straeten / Mariya Petrova
Published in: Central Asian Survey, Issue 41/2, 2022, Page(s) 297.321, ISSN 1465-3354
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2022.2060937

Why Chuño Matters: Rethinking the History of Technology in Latin America

Author(s): Alejandra Osorio
Published in: Technology and Culture, Issue 63/3, 2022, Page(s) 808-829, ISSN 0040-165X
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
DOI: 10.1353/tech.2022.0110

Planned Vulnerabilities? Street Flooding and Drainage Infrastructure in Colonial Dar es Salaam

Author(s): Frank Edward
Published in: HoST - Journal of History of Science and Technology, Issue 16467752, 2022, Page(s) 29-47, ISSN 1646-7752
Publisher: Sciendo
DOI: 10.2478/host-2022-0003

Creole Objects and Techniques: Gold Mining, Gold Panning and Gold Working in Colonial Indonesia

Author(s): Mai Lin Tjoa-Bonatz / Mikael Hard
Published in: Baessler-Archiv, Issue 67, 2021, Page(s) 67-94, ISSN 0005-3856
Publisher: Reimer

Introduction: Shifting Narratives of Electricity and Energy in Periods of Transition

Author(s): Animesh Chatterjee / Daniel Pérez Zapico
Published in: Journal of Energy History, Issue 8, 2023, ISSN 2649-3055
Publisher: EDF Group Foundation

Under the Historian’s Radar: Local Water Supply Practices in Nairobi, 1940-1980

Author(s): Jethron Ayumbah Akallah / Mikael Hard
Published in: Water Alternatives, Issue 13/1, 2020, Page(s) 886-901, ISSN 1965-0175
Publisher: Water Alternatives Association

Technology, Temporality,and the Study of Central Asia: An Introduction

Author(s): Jonas van der Straeten / Julia Obertreis
Published in: Central Asian Survey, Issue 14653354, 2022, Page(s) 211-222, ISSN 1465-3354
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2022.2063795

Maintaining the local Empire: The Public Works Department in Dar es Salaam, 1920–60

Author(s): Frank Edward, Mikael Hård
Published in: The Journal of Transport History, Issue 41/1, 2020, Page(s) 27-46, ISSN 0022-5266
Publisher: Manchester University Press
DOI: 10.1177/0022526619883457

Trading Zones in a Colony: Transcultural Techniques at Missionary Stations in the Dutch East Indies, 1860–1940

Author(s): Mikael Hard / Mai Lin Tjoa-Bonatz
Published in: Social Studies of Science, Issue 50/6, 2020, Page(s) 932-955, ISSN 0306-3127
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/0306312720925913

Water and Boreholes: Resilient Water Provision in Nairobi

Author(s): Jethron Ayumbah Akallah
Published in: HoST - Journal of History of Science and Technology, Issue 16467752, 2022, Page(s) 48-72, ISSN 1646-7752
Publisher: Sciendo
DOI: 10.2478/host-2022-0004

Manual and Electrical Energies in the Visualisation of ‘Electrical Calcutta’, c. 1890-1925

Author(s): Animesh Chatterjee
Published in: Journal of Energy History, Issue 8, 2023, ISSN 2649-3055
Publisher: EDF Group Foundation

Measuring Progress in Megawatt: Colonialism, Development, and the “Unseeing” Electricity Grid in East Africa

Author(s): Jonas van der Straeten
Published in: Centaurus, Issue 93/2, 2021, Page(s) 651-674, ISSN 1600-0498
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/1600-0498.12415

On Our Own Terms: Towards a History of Arab Technological Landscapes and Cultures

Author(s): Shorouk El Hariry
Published in: Technology and Culture, Issue 10973729, 2021, Page(s) 241-252, ISSN 1097-3729
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
DOI: 10.1353/tech.2021.0009

Resilience from Below: Technicians, Repair and Maintenance Works in Post-socialist Dar es Salaam, 1985-2020

Author(s): Emanuel Lukio Mchome
Published in: HoST: Journal of History of Science and Technology, Issue 16467752, 2022, Page(s) 73-98, ISSN 1646-7752
Publisher: Sciencdo
DOI: 10.2478/host-2022-0005

Introduction: The History of East Africa’s Critical Infrastructure

Author(s): Mikael Hard
Published in: HoST - Journal of History of Science and Technology, Issue 16/1, 2022, Page(s) 1-6, ISSN 1646-7752
Publisher: Sciendo
DOI: 10.2478/host-2022-0001

Other (6)

Review of: Thomas Zoglauer, ed., “Technik als Motor der Modernisierung”

Author(s): Mikael Hard
Published in: Technology and Culture, Issue 61/3, 2020, Page(s) 948-949, ISSN 0040-165X
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
DOI: 10.1353/tech.2020.0107

Review of Gussai Sheikheldin, “Liberation and Technology: Development Possibilities in Pursuing Technological Autonomy”

Author(s): Frank Edward
Published in: Tanzania Zamani, Issue 12/2, 2020, Page(s) 181-186, ISSN 0856-6518
Publisher: University of Dar es Salaam

Review of Suvobrata Sarkar: “Let There Be Light: Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Electricity in Colonial Bengal, 1880–1945”

Author(s): Jonas van der Straeten
Published in: Technology and Culture, Issue 63/2, 2022, Page(s) 550-551, ISSN 0040-165X
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
DOI: 10.1353/tech.2022.0068

What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean from Africa? ed. by Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga

Author(s): Frank Edward
Published in: Technology and Culture, Issue 10973729, 2018, Page(s) 815-816, ISSN 1097-3729
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
DOI: 10.1353/tech.2018.0083

Review of: W. Patrick McCray: “Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture,”

Author(s): Animesh Cthatterjee
Published in: 2021
Publisher: h-net

Review of Amy S. Patterson, “Africa and Global Health Governance: Domestic Politics and International Structures”

Author(s): Frank Edward
Published in: Medical History, Issue 63/2, 2019, Page(s) 242-244, ISSN 0025-7273
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/mdh.2019.22

Book chapters (6)

Ressource oder Wildnis? (Post)Koloniale Vorstellungswelten von afrikanischen Naturräumen

Author(s): Jonas van der Straeten
Published in: Umweltgeschichte, 2023, ISBN 978-3-7344-1495-4
Publisher: Wochenschau

Mud Bricks in a Concrete State. Building, Maintaining and Improving One’s Own House in Soviet Samarkand, 1957‐1991

Author(s): Jonas van der Straeten / Mariya Petrova
Published in: The Persistence of Technology: Histories of Repair, Reuse and Disposal, 2021, Page(s) 111-137, ISBN 978-3-8394-4741-3
Publisher: transcript
DOI: 10.14361/9783839447413-007

Technology and Its Temporalities: A Global Perspective

Author(s): Jonas van der Straeten / and Heike Waltraud Weber
Published in: Global History of Techniques (19th-21st Centuries), 2023, ISBN 978-2-503-59151-3
Publisher: Brepols

Beyond South Africa’s Draconian Racial Segregation: Transkeian Surfing Narratives, 1966 – 1994

Author(s): David Drengk
Published in: 2020, ISBN 978-0-8214-2425-4
Publisher: Ohio University Press

Mud Bricks in a Concrete State. Making Socialism Fit: Building, Maintaining and Improving One’s Own House in Soviet Samarkand, 1957‐1991

Author(s): Jonas van der Straeten / Mariya Petrova
Published in: 2022, ISBN 978-3-8376-4741-9
Publisher: transcript Verlag

Prefabricating Uzbekistan? Discourses and Realities of Urban Redevelopment in Tashkent and Samarkand under Soviet Rule

Author(s): Jonas van der Straeten / Mariya Petrova
Published in: Between Solidarity and Economic Constraints: Global Entanglements of Socialist Architecture and Planning in the Cold War Period, 2023, ISBN 978-3-11-065406-6
Publisher: De Gruyter

Non-peer reviewed articles (8)

Rethinking Global History of Technology from Alternative Archives

Author(s): Alejandra Osorio Tarazona / David Drengk / Animesh Chatterjee
Published in: Technikgeschichte, Issue 0040117X, 2021, Page(s) 202-206, ISSN 0040-117X
Publisher: Nomos
DOI: 10.5771/0040-117x-2021-2-202

Sustainability’s ‘Other’: Coming to Terms with the Electric Rickshaw in Bangladesh

Author(s): Jonas van der Straeten
Published in: Historical Social Research, 2022, ISSN 0172-6404
Publisher: Quantum and Zentrum fur Historische Sozialforschung

Toward a Global History of Material Culture

Author(s): Shorouk El Hariry / Mikael Hard / Youngju Lee / Mariya Petrova / Dennis Yazici
Published in: Technikgeschichte, Issue 0040117X, 2021, Page(s) 178-182, ISSN 0040-117X
Publisher: Nomos
DOI: 10.5771/0040-117x-2021-2-180

Borderlands of Industrial Modernity: Explorations into the History of Technology in Central Asia, 1850–2000

Author(s): Jonas van der Straeten
Published in: Technology and Culture, Issue 60/3, 2019, Page(s) 659-687, ISSN 1097-3729
Publisher: Johans Hopkins UP
DOI: 10.1353/tech.2019.0069

The historical ironies of roads

Author(s): De Greiff A. Alexis, Hård Mikael
Published in: The Journal of Transport History, Issue 41/1, 2020, Page(s) 3-5, ISSN 0022-5266
Publisher: Manchester University Press
DOI: 10.1177/0022526620908265

Wissen, Bauen und urbaner Wandel im sowjetischen Usbekistan der 1960er Jahre

Author(s): Mariya Petrova / Jonas van der Straeten
Published in: Moderne Stadtgeschichte, Issue 03401774, 2021, Page(s) 83-101, ISSN 0340-1774
Publisher: difu

The Rhythms Behind Change. Historiography and the Temporality of Non-Western Technological Landscapes

Author(s): Jonas van der Straeten
Published in: Technikgeschichte, Issue 0040117X, 2021, Page(s) 191-196, ISSN 0040-117X
Publisher: Nomos
DOI: 10.5771/0040-117x-2021-2-191

History of Modern Chinese Technology—A Review Essay

Author(s): Wei Wu / Mikael Hard
Published in: ICON—Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology, Issue 25/1, 2020, Page(s) 122-140, ISSN 1361-8113
Publisher: CPI

Thesis and dissertations (2)

In the Technological Footprints of Urbanity: A Socio-political History of Water and Sanitatoin in Nairobi, 1899-2015

Author(s): Jethron Akala
Published in: 2018
Publisher: Darmstadt University Library

‘Blackout Blues’: A Socio-cultural History of Vulnerable Electricity Networks and Resilient Users in Dar es Salaam, 1920–2020

Author(s): Emanuel Lukio Mchome
Published in: 2022
Publisher: TUprints
DOI: 10.26083/tuprints-00021803

Monographic books (2)

“Nah am Boden“: Privater Hausbau zwischen Wohnungsnot und Landkonflikt im sowjetischen Samarkand der 50er und 60er Jahre

Author(s): Mariya Petrova
Published in: 2020, ISBN 9783110669305
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/9783110669367

Microhistories of Technology: Making the World

Author(s): Mikael Hard
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan