Website for Making Europe book series online

14 July 2011

A new history of Europe, provisionally entitled Making Europe: Technology and Transformations 1850-2000, is currently written and scheduled for publication by Palgrave Macmillan in 2013. Since 2010 a team of renowned historians of Europe, including historians of technology is assembling a six volume book series about the key role of technological change in the history of Europe. Information on this exciting project can now be found at www.makingeurope.eu. Making Europe is a spin-off of the Tensions of Europe Network.

Making Europe comes at an opportune time. The future of European integration is a prominent issue on the political agenda yet seems to be fully restricted to the European Union. But Europe goes far beyond that, which is why the time has come to write a much deeper and broader history of various ‘Europes’ since 1850. How did people build, explore, communicate and oppose ‘Europe’ over the past century and a half? To answer these questions the authors have analysed the emergence of various economic, political and cultural European spaces while avoiding the traditional state or nationcentred modes of analysis. Their work focuses on network technologies, knowledge intensive technologies, consumer technologies and large scale technological European projects.

www.makingeurope.eu features all essential background information about the book series; the themes of the six volumes, its authors and researchers, and regular news and events. In due time the website will also serve as a forum for the advanced sales of the book series. The book series will be accompanied by a series of virtual exhibits, which is built in cooperation with technology and science museums from all over Europe.

Making Europe is an initiative of the Foundation for the History of Technology and is made possible by support of SNS Reaal Fund, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS), Eindhoven University of Technology, the European Science Foundation, Next Generation Infrastructures and Philips.