Toward a Transnational History of Technology: Meanings, Promises, Pitfalls
Toward a Transnational History of Technology: Meanings, Promises, Pitfalls
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迈向跨国技术史：意义、承诺、陷阱
DOI：
10.1353/tech.0.0144
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发表时间：
2008
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0.7
通讯作者：
Erik van der Vleuten
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作者：
Erik van der Vleuten
本文探讨了跨国技术史的可能性。它以当前的大型研究项目“欧洲的紧张局势：1950-2000 年的技术与欧洲的形成”为出发点。最近史学的跨国转向的宏伟前景包括：（1）开发以前被置于学术边缘的新研究主题（包括全球化和区域一体化），以及（2）对现有主题（包括国家和地方历史）形成新的、可以说更好的理解。 “跨国历史”概念的三个不同含义为协助这种探究提供了研究场地和研究问题：研究跨境联系和流动；研究塑造当代世界的国际组织；并质疑民族国家作为（技术）历史的关键研究类别。最后，本文讨论了这一探究过程中的八个陷阱。
This essay investigates the possibility of a transnational history of technology. It takes the current, large scale research program Tensions of Europe: Technology and the Making of Europe, 1950–2000 as its point of departure. The grand promises of the recent transnational turn in historiography, from which historians of technology may profit and to which they may contribute, include: (1) developing new research topics previously relegated to the margins of scholarship (including globalization and regional integration), and (2) developing a fresh and arguably better understanding of existing topics (including national and local history). Three distinct meanings of the concept of “transnational history” provide research sites and research questions to assist such inquiry: studying cross-border linkages and flows; studying international organizations shaping the contemporary world; and questioning the nation state as the key research category for (technological) history. Finally, the essay discusses eight pitfalls following this line of inquiry.