Technology transfers: east-west, north-south. Globalizing building technique: the centennial hall in Wrocław / Knut Stegmann -- Heating the groves: the globalization of agricultural technology and the acclimatization of citrus in the USSR, 1928-1936 / Johanna Conterio -- Swabian water treatment technology in Russia: a case study of international knowledge and technology transfer between west and east in the late 1960s / Thomas Schuetz -- Canada, communism, and the Colombo plan / David McGee and Rian Manson -- Inkonvensional pathways: soldered supply chains from Indonesia's Tin Islands / Matthew Hockenberry -- Dimensions of globalization: objects and identities. Local markers, global players: Tabla manufacture and design in a global marketplace / P. Allen Roda -- Electric Turkish Coffee Makers: capturing authenticity for global markets / Harun Kaygan -- Canoes, identity, and globalization: the story of Bill Mason's camera case / Bryan Dewalt -- A bulldog travels around the world: global perspectives on the tractor production of Heinrich Lanz and John Deere in Mannheim, circa 1921-1965 / Oliver Schmidt -- Technology heritage online: a review of the digital museum Inventing Europe / Kimberly Coulter.
Summary:
"The latest volume in the Artefacts series, Objects in Motion: Globalizing Technology delves into globalization's various manifestations throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Each chapter highlights the movement of a specific object within the global economy. Transported out of their original localized frames of meaning, these objects are resignified in new contexts, connected by the interplay of the global landscapes. Bringing together the methods and objects of study from anthropology and the history of technology, Objects in Motion explores the technological, cultural, and political dimensions of globalization in the past and the present"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Artefacts : studies in the history of science and technology ; volume 10
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