Assignment:
Complete a review of a scholarly article from the journal Technology and Culture about a topic of your choice related to the history of technology. The review will need to be about a historical development related to the history of technology from before roughly 1750 AD (CE). The purposes of the review are to provide you with new information and insight on a chosen topic, and to give you the opportunity to become familiar with the structure and format of analytical historical arguments. In the review, you will identify the author's central thesis, and then summarize the various points which the author uses to support that thesis. The review will then identify the author's sources, focusing especially on the primary sources, and will assess how the author uses those sources.
The article under review must be from the journal Technology and Culture, issues of which are available via the university library through JSTOR and Project MUSE; the article reviewed must be no fewer than fifteen pages in length. The review should consist of at least two full pages of text (double-spaced, with 12-pt Times New Roman font and one-inch margins on all sides, with any title information placed on a separate title page)