Technology and Culture
Volume 49, Number 3, July 2008
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Your Subscribed ContentSpecial Issue: Water
Introduction
Seeing Like an Engineer: Water Projects and the Mediation of the Incommensurable
pp. 531-546
Articles
Cooperative Sanitation: Managing Streets and Gutters in Late Medieval England and Scandinavia
pp. 547-567
Image and Audience: Contractual Representation and London’s Main Drainage System
pp. 568-598
Breaking from the Colonial Mold: Water Engineering and the Failure of Nation-Building in the Plain of Reeds, Vietnam
pp. 599-623
Turning Water into Power: Debates over the Development of Tanzania’s Rufiji River Basin, 1945–1985
pp. 624-651
Telling Otherwise: A Historical Anthropology of Tank Irrigation Technology in South India
pp. 652-674
Reluctant Modernization: The Cultural Dynamics of Water Supply in Istanbul, 1885–1950
pp. 675-700
From Colonial to Postcolonial Irrigation Technology: Technological Romanticism and the Revival of Colonial Water Tanks in Java, Indonesia
pp. 701-726
Engineering Innovation at Bonneville Dam
pp. 727-751
Subject Headings:
On the Cover
The Bridge at Mackinac Straits: Another Fiftieth Anniversary
pp. 752-763
Museums
Museums of Science and Technology in Lisbon
pp. 764-772
Essay Review
Book Reviews
A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World (review)
pp. 779-781
Means without End: A Critical Survey of the Ideological Geneaology of Technology without Limits, from Apollonian Techne to Postmodern Technoculture (review)
pp. 781-782
A Companion to the History of the Book (review)
pp. 782-784
Gunpowder, Explosives, and the State: A Technological History (review)
pp. 785-786
Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance (review)
pp. 786-787
Renaissance Vision from Spectacles to Telescopes (review)
pp. 788-789
The Telescope: Its History, Technology, and Future (review)
pp. 789-791
Philosophical Instruments: Minds and Tools at Work (review)
pp. 791-792
The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution (review)
pp. 793-794
The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius (review)
pp. 794-796
American Silk, 1830–1930: Entrepreneurs and Artifacts (review)
pp. 796-798
From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture’s Encounter with the American City (review)
pp. 798-799
The Best Transportation System in the World: Railroads, Trucks, Airlines, and American Public Policy in the Twentieth Century (review)
pp. 799-801
Uncommon Carriers (review)
pp. 801-803
Subject Headings:
Evolution of the American Diesel Locomotive (review)
pp. 803-805
Blind Landings: Low-Visibility Operations in American Aviation, 1918–1958 (review)
pp. 805-806
The Green and the Brown: A History of Conservation in Nazi Germany (review)
pp. 806-808
Technology Gatekeepers for War and Peace: The British Ship Revolution and Japanese Industrialization (review)
pp. 808-810
Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan before Pearl Harbor (review)
pp. 810-811
Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War (review)
pp. 812-813
A History of the Kennedy Space Center (review)
pp. 813-815
The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950 (review)
pp. 815-817
Real American Ethics: Taking Responsibility for Our Country (review)
pp. 817-818
Science and Technology Policy in the United States: Open Systems in Action (review)
pp. 819-820
Science for Sale: The Perils, Rewards, and Delusions of Campus Capitalism (review)
pp. 821-822
Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination (review)
pp. 823-824
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (review)
pp. 824-826
Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy (review)
pp. 826-827
Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry (review)
pp. 828-829
Technografie: Zur Mikrosoziologie der Technik (review)
pp. 831-832