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Podcast: New Books in Western European Studies
Episode: Pamela O. Long on the Long, Long, Long History of Technology
Description: Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with MacArthur āGenius Prizeā winning historian Pamela Long about her long career writing about the history of ancient and Medieval technologies. The pair use Longās forthcoming book,Ā Technology in Mediterranean and European Lands, 600-1600Ā (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025), as a launching point but also cover her previous work, especially including Engineering theĀ Eternal City: Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century RomeĀ (University of Chicago Press, 2018), which, among other things, contains deep reflections on the history of maintenance. Long and Vinsel also discuss Longās future projects, including a fascinating sounding stu...