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Technology as a Resource: Material Culture and Processes in the Pre-Modern World
and Giorgio Riello 
It has long been taken for granted that technology is one of the factors behind economic growth, thus reducing technology to the application of science to industry. In recent years, however, a new body of literature has reconsidered the teleology of progress and innovation. This issue gathers the contributions presented at the session “Technology as Resource: Material Culture and Processes in the Pre-Modern World’ held at the 19th World Economic History Congress in Paris in 2022. A group of scholars working in a variety of disciplines – economic and art history, material culture and curatorial practice – reflect on the meaning of techniques and on processes of technical change in a comparative and global context. They ask how a deep engagement with materiality and material culture helps us to rethink technology as a “traditional efficient action” – in the words of Marcel Mauss – and thus as a repository of processes and as a resource.
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In memoriam [Full text]Sylviane Llinarès (1958-2023)
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Technology as a Ressource: Material Culture and Processes in the Pre-Modern World
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Questionner la technique comme ressource à l’époque moderne
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La technique et la technologie : des ressources pour l’histoire globale
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“France de commande” [Full text]A Circumscribed Channel of Exchange between China and France (1760-1780)« France de commande ». Une voie d’échanges circonscrite entre la Chine et la France (1760-1780)
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Les techniques chinoises comme ressources. Les lanternes à corne et la circulation globale des savoirs dans la France du xviiie siècle
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Of Resources, Techniques and Historical SourcesPerspectives croisées sur la durabilité des textiles aux xviiie et xixe siècles en Europe. Ressources, techniques et sources historiques
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rikawa : récipients à eau en algue de Tasmanie
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From Site to Space [Full text]The Transformation of Resources in the Ceramics Manufacturing Process in Early Modern Europe and ChinaDu site à l'espace. La transformation des ressources dans la fabrication des céramiques dans l’Europe moderne et en Chine
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Le dépôt de la nature ? La pêche à la perle et l’environnement aux Amériques et en Asie aux xvie et xviie siècles
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Cultures matérielles et visuelles
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Restituer le grand pavillon de François Ier au Camp du drap d’or : entre techniques d’hier et d’aujourd’hui [Full text]Digital Restitution of the Great Pavilion of Francis I at the Field of Cloth of Gold: Alliance between Old and Current Techniques
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Historical Scientific Instruments in Polish Museums
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La relique et la réplique [Full text]Pour une ethno-histoire du patrimoine automobile des croisières CitroënThe Relic and the Replica. An Ethnographic and Historic Account of the Citroen Cruises Automotive Heritage
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Comptes rendus de lecture
