The Global History of Techniques and the Globalization of the History of Techniques
Résumé
This article present the main lines of the book Global History of Technics, 19th–21st Century. The aim is to offer a world tour of the history of technology, taking into account regional historiographies. Against any attempt to reconstruct a European-centric “grand narrative”, our project is to restore a decentralized history of techniques. We refer to techniques rather than technology—the latter has become an ambiguous catch-all term, and we prefer to preserve its meaning as a science of human activities.
The globalization of techniques that we explore takes into account the diversity of regional approaches, as well as the temporal variety of regimes of invention, appropriation and exchange.
Several examples (techniques in Oceania, studied by Marie Durand, hydraulic techniques, presented by Elisabeth Mortier and Raphaël Morera, and Big Science, analyzed by Olof Hallonsten) clarify the book’s lines of force and give substantial flesh to our panorama of case studies.
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