Technology and the Making of Europe
Special issue of 'History of Technology' about European technologies in Spanish history
13 July 2011
The journal History of Technology released a special issue about European technologies in Spanish history, which focuses on the development of four key issues in the development of modern Spain: knowledge, manufacturing, energy, and telecommunications and public works.
"If technology transfer from advanced nations to less developed systems always worked, the whole world would now be rich. That this is not the case is so obvious, we might well expect that the history of the processes, successes and failures of technology transfer across nations would be a very well-established field of enquiry. In fact the theme is still a developing one, and the present Special Issue centres on the case of Spain as exemplary in many respects. The collected essays focus upon four major themes of knowledge: manufacturing, energy, telecommunications and public works. The scope of the essays ranges from the eighteenth century to the present, from studies of espionage and early links between craftsmen and savants to the institutions of technology to case-studies of silk manufacture, shipbuilding, mining, paper-making, and pharmaceuticals. Each essay offers a broad variety of material to bring to bear on a major problem of world development past, present and future."
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