New issue of HoST — Journal of History of Science and Technology online

HoST — Journal of History of Science and Technology is a peer-reviewed open access journal, available online, published in english by De Gruyter, as a result of a partnership between four portuguese research units (CIUHCT, CIDEHUS, Institute for Social Sciences, and Institute of Contemporary History).

Table of contents of volume 12.1
 

• Opening essay by Jürgen Renn on the role of science and technology in the era of Anthropocene framed by Historical Epistemology, "The Evolution of Knowledge: Rethinking Science in the Anthropocene"
   
• A special issue on Railway History that contains an introduction by the Guest Editor Hugo Silveira Pereira, two research articles and two literature review articles, which cross sub-fields of History (Labour History, Colonial History, Digital Humanities, and Business History) with History of Technology:
  • "Introduction – New Insights and Perceptions on Railway History", Hugo Silveira Pereira
  • "The Transfer of Railway Technologies and Afro-Asian Labor Processes within the British Empire", Ian J. Kerr
  • "Colonial Railways and Conflict Resolution Between Portugal and the United Kingdom in Africa (c. 1880–early 1900s)", Hugo Silveira Pereira
  • "The Transport Revolution on Land and Sea: Farming, Fishing, and Railways in Great Britain, 1840-1914", Robert M. Schwartz
  • "Railway Towns: a Long-term Global Perspective", Domingo Cuéllar
• Three book reviews framed within the recent HSTM historiography:
  • "Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: The gender politics of food contamination after Fukushima", Mónica Truninger
  • "For Fun and Profit: A History of the Free and Open Source Software Revolution", Ignasi Meda-Calvet
  • "Wiring the World: The Social and Cultural Creation of Global Telegraph Networks", Ana Paula Silva

The current chief editor of the journal is M. Luísa Sousa, with Antonio Sánchez and Maria do Mar Gago serving as associate editors, and Jaume Sastre-Juan as book review editor.