History of Technology Volume 33: (History of Technology)

While political and social historians have made great progress in trying to understand the making of modern Greece by studying * politics and power struggles, little attention has been given TO the co-evolution of the Greek state and the technologies that were developed during this period. This volume HELPS fills this gap, exploring the formation of the Greek state and the construction of ‘modern’ Greece through the lens of the history of technology and industry. The contributors look at the role of engineering institutions, the press and of infrastructure technological networks in promoting specific technocratic ideals and legitimizing social roles for the engineers of the period. The volume as a whole offers new insights into the way that engineering culture, institutional reforms and infrastructures contributed to the making of ‘modern’ Greece. Special Issue: History of Technology in Greece, from the Early 19th to 21st Century Edited by Stathis Arapostathis and Aristotelis Tympas

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1. Introduction: History of Technology in Modern Greece from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day, Stathis Arapostathis and Aristotle Tympas Part One: Technologies, Industries and Policies 2. From Parallel Growth to Great Divergence: Greek Shipbuilding, Late Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Century, Apostolos Delis 3. Choosing Locomotives in the Formative Period of the Greek Railways, 1880-1910, Dionysis Paraskevopoulos 4. Armament Projects: The Greek Air Force Case, 1950 to 2000, Dimitrios Ziakas 5. Medical Technologies and Health Policies in Post WWII Greece, Katerina Vlantoni, Aspasia Kandaraki, Antonia Pavli Part Two: Technical Cultures, Engineering Institutions, Expertise and Socio-Technical Networks 6. Science and Industry in Public Discourses on Technical Education in Greece, 1864-1887, Eirini Mergoupi Savaidou 7. Greek Engineers, Institutions, Periodicals and Ideology: Late 19th and Early 20th Century, Spyros Tzokas 8. Water Management, Expertise and Techno-politics in Energy and Agriculture, 1940-2014: The Case of the Acheloos River, Stathis Arapostathis and Serkan Karas 9. ‘Tobacco for Atoms’: Nuclear Politics, Ambivalences and Resistances about a Reactor that was Never Built, Stathis Arapostathis, Aspasia Kandaraki, Yannis Garyfallos, Aristotle Tympas 10. Computer Technology Periodicals and the Circulation of Knowledge about the Personal Computer in 1980s Greece, Theodore Lekkas Part Three: Technology between Accidents and Mobilities 11. Efrosini Crossing Syngrou Avenue: Automobile Accidents and the Introduction of the Automobile in Greece (1900-11), Christos Karampatsos 12. History of Mobility in Greece: The Building of the National Road Network as a Defining Episode, Evangelia Chatzikonstantinou, Areti Sakellaridou 13. Technology for Traveling Pleasures and Experiences: Transportation and the Construction of Postwar Greece as a Tourist Destination, Alexia–Sofia Papazafeiropoulou, Konstantinos Vattes, Katerina Zacharopoulou Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Ian Inkster is Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, University of London, UK.