(H/B) HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY (VOLUME 32)

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This volume provides an overview of current research in the history of Italian technology in the long run, from the early Middle Ages to the 20th century. The contributors focus on different aspects of Italian creativity in a local, transnational and global dimension, tracing the trajectory from primacy to relative decline. The themes range from the creation and establishment of new technologies in laboratories or enterprises, the processes of learning, diffusion, and copying and the institutions involved in the generation of a national technological capability and innovation system. Comparative studies are included in order to illustrate special features of the Italian case. The industries covered in this volume range from silk, iron and steel production, to electricity generation and telecommunications.
Special Issue: Italian Technology from the Renaissance to the 20th Century. Edited by Anna Guagnini and Luca Mola. (From the publisher)

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Notes on Contributors
Introduction - Anna Guagnini (University of Bologna, Italy) and Luca Mola (University of Warwick, UK)
Part I: Early Modern Italian Leadership
Inventors, Patents and the Market for Innovations in Renaissance Italy - Luca Mola (University of Warwick, UK)
The Microcosm: Technological Innovation and the Transfer of Italian Mechanical Knowledge to the Habsburg Empire in the Sixteenth Century - Cristiano Zanetti (European University Institute, Italy)
Diamonds in Early Modern Venice: Technology, Products and International Competition - Salvatore Ciriacono (Universita di Padova, Italy)
A Global Supremacy: The Worldwide Hegemony of the Piedmontese Reeling Technologies. 1720s-1830s - Roberto Davini (European University Institute, Italy)
Part II: Object Innovation: Ceramics
Raw Materials, Transmission of Know-How and Ceramic Techniques in Early Modern Italy: A Mediterranean Perspective - Marta Caroscio (Harvard University Press, USA)
Anabaptist Migration and the Diffusion of the Bianchi Technology from Faenza to East Central Europe, XVIth-XVIIth Centuries - Emese Balint (European University Institute, Italy)
Part III: Modernity: Three Case Studies From Experiment to Plant.
A Bold Leap into Electric Light: The Creation of the Societa Italiana Edison, 1880-1886 - Anna Guagnini (University of Bologna, Italy)
Keeping Abreast with the Technology of Science: The Economic Life of the Physics Laboratory at the University of Padua, 1847-1857 - Christian Carletti (University of Bologna, Italy)
Mechanics "Made in Italy": Innovation and Expertise Evolution. A Case Study from the Packaging Industry, 1960-98 - Matteo Serafini (University of Bologna, Italy)
Part IV: Communications
Telecommunications Italian Style: The Shaping of the Constitutive Choices (1850-1914) - Gabriele Balbi (USI-Lugano, Switzerland) and Simone Fari (USI-Lugano, Switzerland)
Beyond the Myth of the Self-taught Inventor: The Learning Process and Formative Years of Young Guglielmo Marconi - Barbara Valotti, Marconi Museum, Italy
Technology Transfer, Economic Strategies and Politics in the Building of the First Italian Submarine Telegraph - Andrea Giuntini (Universita degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Part V: Lights and Shades: Italian Innovation Across the Centuries
European Steel vs Chinese Cast-iron: From Technological Change to Social and Political Choices (4th Century BC-18th Century AD) - Mathieu Arnoux ( l'Universite Paris VII, France)
The Italian National Innovation System: A Long Term Perspective, 1861-2011 - Alessandro Nuvolari (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy) and Michelangelo Vasta (University of Siena, Italy)