Book series
Consumers, Tinkerers, Rebels: The People Who Shaped Europe
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By Mikael Hård and Ruth Oldenziel
They all had a dream. Sitting at her Singer sewing machine in 1880, the Turkish woman imagined being invited to the Paris Great Opera in a fancy dress. Setting off on their bicycles in 1893, an American artist-writer couple living in London sought to master the Alps on their iron horses. Standing in line at the post office in 1983, the long-haired
Building Europe on Expertise: Technocrats, Organizers and Communicators
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By Helmuth Trischler and Martin Kohlrausch
The idea of the knowledge society has become central to the self-conception of the European Union and also of Europe in a wider sense. Whereas in the 19th century, scientific and technical superiority stood as the reason and justification for Europe’s global hegemony, a more modest version of Europe as a knowledge society dominates today's po
Europe’s Infrastructure Transition: Economy, War, Nature
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By Per Högselius, Arne Kaijser and Erik van der Vleuten
Europe’s infrastructure transition constituted one of the most pervasive changes ever on the subcontinent. Two hundred years ago, waterways and poorly maintained road networks were the main vectors for Europe’s material integration and fragmentation. Travel was slow and cumbersome. So were flows of energy, information and goods, which f
Writing the Rules for Europe: Experts, Cartels and International Organizations
By Wolfram Kaiser, Johan Schot and Dagmara Jajesniak-Quast
Most Europeans have grown up with the notion that their nation-states framed the conditions under which they live. The state provided internal security and domestic welfare. In southern European dictatorships and in East-Central Europe, the state also repressed personal freedoms. Now national sovereignty has eroded and is frequently shared, most no
Communicating Europe: Technologies, Information, Events
By Andreas Fickers and Pascal Griset
“What hath God wrought?” – these words, sent by Samual B. Morse via an eletromagnetic telegraph line from Washington D.C. to Baltimore on the 24th of May 1844, inaugurated the age of modern communication. Since then, modernity at large is asscociated with technologies of electronic communication and information, such as the
Europe Globalizing: Mapping, Exploiting, Exchanging
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By Maria Paula Diogo and Dirk van Laak
How did Europe interact with the rest of the world from 1850 until today? What part did technology play within colonial and other encounters? And how did our globalized world emerge? Since the mid-19th century communication throughout the globe has sped up enormously. Globalization became a fundamental condition for all further developments