| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.5

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.5 | The History Cooperative

Mikael Håard and Andrew Jamison. Hubris and Hybrids: A Cultural History of Technology and Science. New York: Routledge. 2005. Pp. xv, 335. $90.00.
This is a bold book. Rejecting the trend towards increasingly specialist histories of science and technology, Mikael Håaard, a German historian of technology and Andrew Jamison, a Swedish scholar from the interdisciplinary field of science and technology studies, have chosen to write a synthetic history covering the period from the founding of modern science in the seventeenth century through to the most recent developments in technology such as the rise of the World Wide Web. Their focus is upon cultural appropriation: namely, how science and technology are given human meaning in "discursive, institutional and daily practices."	1
Their goal is to sail between the Scylla of the heroic stories told of genius scientists and inventors conquering ignorance and bringing forth the wonder machines of modern life and the Charybdis of the counternarrative, whether fraudulent scientists spinning false hopes of stem-cell breakthroughs, or the doom and gloom of the current ecological angst, or the megamachine of technology running amuck. Indeed, their source of inspiration can be found in the writings of Lewis Mumford who first introduced the idea of the megamachine and its dangers.	. . .

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