http://repub.eur.nl/res/aut/11948/ List of Publications en http://repub.eur.nl/static-eur/img/logo.png http://repub.eur.nl http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/19272/ 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The article discusses the ideas behind the architect and urban planner Granpre Molière’s designs for villages in the new IJsselmeerpolders, in the context of the utopian ideas of his time, especially his dialogue with Modernists and the new discipline of urban planning. Molière work is analyzed as a curious but very coherent case of conservative utopianism. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/19796/ 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The article explores the deeply ambivalent attitudes towards scientists and engineers in the Netherlands during the period of economic reconstruction after WWII, by examining popular media such as illustrated magazines and comic books, as well as widely read intellectual publications, and refutes, at least for the Netherlands, the argument made famous by C.P. Snow that literary intellectuals were predominantly cultural pessimists, while scientists and engineers were optimists. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/17539/ 2009-11-01T00:00:00Z The article discusses the increasing role of engineers, architects and city planners in the physical and social shaping of the Netherlands from the late nineteenth century. Asking whether this meant that the Netherlands became a kind of technocracy, it analyzes the relation between different kinds of expert among each other and towards and the political and economic elites. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/17568/ 2009-11-01T00:00:00Z The article discusses the modernization of Dutch agriculture and industry from the perspective of technological choices made. Because these choices involved sociocultural as well as purely economic-rational considerations, a different picture than the one usually presented by economic historians emerges. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/13699/ 2008-09-01T00:00:00Z The article analyzes public images and stories of nuclear power, demonstrating how they develop in an atmosphere of intense fear and equally intense propaganda on the part of government and nuclear scientists. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/12870/ 2008-03-01T00:00:00Z The internationalization of business is the subject of an extensive theoretical literature as well as a growing number of historical studies. Historians have paid relatively little attention to the development of multinationals in the service sector, and studies about international publishing are especially scarce. This article discusses the early internationalization of two Dutch publishing firms, Kluwer (nowWolters Kluwer) and Elsevier (now Reed Elsevier) and confronts these case histories with the evolutionary theory of internationalization. The Dutch cases underline the important role of experience, knowledge and learning as well as of the national context in which companies develop. They also show that these factors allow for very different trajectories of internationalization within the same branch of business and the same country. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/10842/ 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Three recent overviews of the history of technology, by Misa, Hard and Jamison, and Lintsen e.a. are discussed in the context of the western tradition of thought about the social meaning of technological change. English version of the article published in Gewina 2006 http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/10840/ 2007-01-09T00:00:00Z A quantitative and qualitative content analysis of the representation of nuclear power in the most popular illustrated family magazine in the Netherlands, demonstrating the adequacy of science popularization and the dimensions of the assessment of the social impact of the new technology http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/10839/ 2006-01-07T00:00:00Z Three recent overviews on the history of technology are reviewed and situated in the debate on the role of technology in society since early modern times http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/10838/ 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Using the ideas of Hannah Arendt and Jerome Bruner on the interpretive meaning of stories, the article analyses the contrasting images of the atom bomb in two very popular comics series in the Netherlands. One series attempted to reassure the readers about the impact of the new weapon, the other one to disturb the optimism of political propaganda. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/10837/ 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Bespreking van recente literatuur over wetenschapspopularisatie. Het artikel geeft een overzicht van de geschiedenis van de publieke beeldvorming van de natuurwetenschappen vanaf de vroeg-moderne tijd tot heden en de belangrijkste transities in die ontwikkeling http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/6880/ 2004-09-24T00:00:00Z Conference paper http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/11086/ 2003-12-08T00:00:00Z Het revolutionaire karakter van de nieuwe technieken van spinnen en weven vanaf de late achttiende eeuw in Engeland en de rol van wetenschap daarbij http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/11085/ 2003-07-05T00:00:00Z De gebrekkige wijze waarop de geschiedenis vand e techniek aan de orde komt in algemene historische overzichtswerken en in schoolboeken. Waarom het geschiedenisonderwijs verrijkt kan worden door meer aandacht te besteden aan technische ontwikkeling. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/10836/ 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Het artikel analyseert de verschillende strategieen bij de internationalisering van twee Nederlandse uitgevers, Kluwer en Elsevier. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/10841/ 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z An analysis of the role of engineers, architects and city planners in the transformation of Dutch society from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century. The article tries to assess the extent to which decisions about the physical and social arrangement of Dutch society were left to technical experts - hence the title: 'Technology as politics'. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/17860/ 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z A brief analysis of the socio-cultural roots and the uses of Philips' research program 'ambient technology' and suggestions for alternative directions for this research. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/10834/ 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The introduction of printing machines in two successful firms in the decades around 1900 is followed and explained in the context of the quickly expanding market for different kinds of information: newspapers and books in the case of Sijthoff, administrative forms for central and local government and schools in the case of Samsom. The innovations reflect and elucidate of one aspect of modernization: the emergence of an information society. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/11084/ 2000-05-01T00:00:00Z Schaalvergroting van allerlei maatschappelijke processen eind negentiende eeuw leidde tot de invoering van nieuwe technieken, die een vast onderdeel zijn geworden van de twintigste-eeuwse samenleving. besproken worden onder meer de telegraaf, de moderne fabriek, moderne reclame en de supermarkt. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/10832/ 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The article describes how from the end of the eigteenth century the Netherlands lost its prominent position on the international paper market, then regained it in the nineteenth century. It discusses the role in this process of technological regime change towards industrial paper making and how this case study relates to theories about technological change in the Netherlands during this period. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/10833/ 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Between 1905 and 1907 Rotterdam boat workers first succeeded, then failed in preventing the introduction of grain unloading machinery, which would cost many of them their jobs. The article discusses the debate this conflict provoked on the meaning and procedures of industrial innovation, focussing upon the relation between the national and the local. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/10831/ 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In de negentiende eeuw groeide het lezerspubliek snel. Tegelijk zorgden nieuwe technieken in de papierproductie en de drukkerij voor een groter verscheidenheid en een veel goedkoper aanbod van drukwerk. De samenhang tussen deze ontwikkelingen kan worden verklaard vanuit de groeiende markt, het toenemende aanbod dan wel uit de klassenverhoudingen. Het artikel toetst deze drie hypothesen. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/10768/ 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z On the basis of student registers of the Delft engineering school, the article discusses the social backgrounds of engineering students between 1842 and 1940 in the Netherlands. The relatively high social position of their parents throughout the period raises the question of the relation in status between engineering and the more classical learned professions as well as the officer corps. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/10835/ 1993-01-01T00:00:00Z Three Dutch critics of the social implications of industrial technology are discussed and situated in the general West European debate about industry. Their relative marginality as compared to similar critics in England and Germany is explained in the context of the development conservatism and romanticism in the Netherlands. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/10767/ 1992-07-01T00:00:00Z The article discusses the debate among the main ideological groups in the Netherlands about the social impact of modern technology during the first phase of industrialization, 1850-1920. It provides an explanation of the convergence of opinion towards approval of modern technology after 1890, while earlier there was much opposition, especially from roman catholic and orthodox protestant leaders. http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/10766/ 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The article discusses the development of Dutch government policy to support small-scale industrial production. It argues that this policy was the result of concern about the decline of craft production, which was part a debate in several industrializing societies about future forms of production and class relations. Dutch craft policy is briefly compared to much more powerful policies in Germany and Austria.