Frank Schipper and Johan Schot organized the concept and contents of a special issue of History and Technology about 'Infrastructural Europeanism, or the Project of Building Europe on Infrastructures'.

The concept of infrastructural Europeanism is used to investigate the co-construction of Europe and infrastructures. Contributions to this special issue do not only demonstrate that different Europes were constructed at the same time, but also that Europe was not always an explicit ideal. All articles contribute to understanding infrastructural Europe through the lens of institutions, mostly international organizations. The introduction provides the following periodization of Infrastructural Europeanism:

• Implicit infrastructural Europeanism, 1815–1921
• Experimental infrastructural Europeanism, 1921–47
• Explicit infrastructural West-Europeanism, 1947–92
• Enlarged infrastructural Europeanism meets globalization, from 1992

Table of contents

• Editor’s note

History and Technology, Volume 27, Issue 3, Page 243, September 2011.

• Infrastructural Europeanism, or the project of building Europe on infrastructures: an introduction

History and Technology, Volume 27, Issue 3, Page 245-264, September 2011.

• The dynamics of transnational railway governance in Europe during the long nineteenth century

History and Technology, Volume 27, Issue 3, Page 265-289, September 2011.

• ‘An experience forgotten today’: examining two rounds of European electricity liberalization

History and Technology, Volume 27, Issue 3, Page 291-310, September 2011.

• Fragile links, frozen identities: the governance of telecommunication networks and Europe (1944–53)

History and Technology, Volume 27, Issue 3, Page 311-330, September 2011.

• Competition for European competence: the Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine and the European Economic Community in the 1960s

History and Technology, Volume 27, Issue 3, Page 331-352, September 2011.

• Hosting the World Wide Web Consortium for Europe: from CERN to INRIA

History and Technology, Volume 27, Issue 3, Page 353-370, September 2011.

• Visualizing viaducts in 1880s Paris

History and Technology, Volume 27, Issue 3, Page 371-377, September 2011.

• What’s missing from this picture? Using visual materials in infrastructure studies

History and Technology, Volume 27, Issue 3, Page 379-387, September 2011.