%0 Journal Article %T De betwiste modernisering van Nederland. Een introductie op de serie 'Techniek in Nederland in de twintigste eeuw' %A J. Schot %A H. Lintsen %A A. Rip %A A. Albert de la Bruh¨¨ze %J BMGN : Low Countries Historical Review %D 2005 %I Utrecht University Library Open Access Journals %X The contested modernisation of the Netherlands. An introduction to the series ¡®Techniek in Nederland in de twintigste eeuw¡¯ History is a discipline that is divided up into different specialist areas. The realisation of the seven-volume series entitled ¡®Technology in the Netherlands in the Twentieth Century¡¯ could be used to support this claim. However, the greatest achievement of the series is that it has written a new history of the Netherlands from the viewpoint of technology. It is a history of technology in which technology itself is not the key issue. The series explores a number of hypotheses about the modernisation of the Netherlands. For example, the relationship between the development of technology and scaling-up, the emergence of the consumer society, and the role of engineers in the evolving intervention state. The series can be viewed as an invitation for future cooperation among historians. %K Historiography %K Technology %U http://www.bmgn-lchr.nl/index.php/bmgn/article/view/6146