Volume 12, No. 2
April 2000
Videotex, the Internet, and Innovation in France and the United States
Book Review:
Global Communications since 1844
Communication Technologies and the Public Historian
News of the Field:
Cryptography/Cryptology
Global Communication Networks at OAM/NCPH
A Century of Engineering Acheivements
First Media Ecology Association Conference
Pamphlet Series:
Historical Perspectives
on Technology, Society, and Culture
The Society for the History of Technology, in collaboration with the American Historical Association, is in the process of producing a set of two or three dozen pamphlets, each of them addressing technology in a specific topical context. Pamela O. Long and Robert C. Post coedit the series, and they are working to have "each pamphlet present a broadly informed synthesis of the best work in the field and to outline the salient historiographical issues and the most cogent interpretations." The first two pamphlets are Technology and Society in Ming China (1368-1644) by Francesca Bray, and Technology, Society, and Culture in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe, 1300-1600, by Pamela O. Long. Pamphlets on military technologies, as well as on American labor and technology history are in the works. Each pamphlet in the series will be $6 for SHOT & AHA members; $8 for nonmembers.
Find an introductory essay for the series and guidelines for proposals at <http://www.press. jhu.edu/associations/shot/shot_aha.htm>. An overview history of communication technologies, as well as a history of a specific field, could fit into the series. Check out the guidelines and consider a proposal.