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Beschreibung
How risk, disasters and pollution were managed and made acceptable during the Industrial Revolution
How risk, disasters and pollution were managed and made acceptable during the Industrial Revolution
Über den Autor
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz is a historian of science and technology, previously at Imperial College London, now based in Paris at the Centre Nationalde la Recherche Scientifique. He is the author of The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us (with Christophe Bonneuil) and Chaos in the Heavens: The Forgotten History of Climate Change (with Fabien Locher).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Little Modern Disinhibitions
1 Inoculated with Risk
2 The Philanthropic Virus
3 The Ancien Régime and Humanity’s ‘Environmental Surroundings’
4 Liberalising the Environment
5 Lighting up France after Waterloo
6 The Mechanics of Fault
Conclusion

Afterword
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Importe, Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781839765506
ISBN-10: 183976550X
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 8611
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Fressoz, Jean-Baptiste
Übersetzung: Broder, David
Hersteller: Verso Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 235 x 153 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
Erscheinungsdatum: 18.06.2024
Gewicht: 0,43 kg
Artikel-ID: 126607454

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