Ej blot til søm og skruer: Teknologihistorie som forskningsfelt

More than Nuts and Bolts – the History of Technology as Field of Research

The article introduces the Temp special issue titled New Histories of Technology. To set the frame of the special issue the article outlines how the history of technology has developed thematically and theoretically as a field of research since the 1990s. It also places the individual contributions of special issue in relation to current international trends within the field. We demonstrate the ways in which the understanding of technology – and thus the history of technology as a research field – has been expanded and increasingly integrated with other historical sub-fields, in particular environmental history. We argue that attention to “the material”, “the old” and “the global” constitutes key trends in international research and that these trends are also reflected in the contributions to the special issue.