24 February - 2 March
Section outline
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TECHNOLOGY AND EUROPEAN IDENTITY
- Industrial revolution, Enlightenment, European supremacy, Civilizing mission, Eurocentrism
TEXTS
1) Hirschhausen U., Patel K.K. (2010) Europeanization in History: An Introduction. In: Conway M., Patel K.K. (eds) Europeanization in the Twentieth Century. The Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London
2) Mokyr J. (2002), The Enduring Riddle of the European Miracle: The Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. Draft paper for the Conference on Convergence and Divergence in Historical Perspective: The Origins of Wealth and Persistence of Poverty in the Modern World, Riverside, CA. Nov. 8-10, 2002
3) (2005) Europe, technology, and colonialism in the 20th century, History and Technology, 21:1, 85-106