Author: Jean-Baptiste Frezzos
Title: Happy Apocalypse: A History of Technological Risk
Description: Verso Books, 2024. Hardcover. Fine Condition. 9781839765506 Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages; bright clean jacket. A well-looked after copy. "Happy Apocalypse offers a compelling, powerful and very timely critique of the claim that we live in a period unprecedentedly marked by an awareness of technological crises and environmental risks. Fressoz shows instead, and in striking detail, how in France and Britain in the decades around 1800, in major fields of concern such as public health, industrial safety and environmental impact, calculations of risk and estimates of safety were both impressively widespread and energetically debated. The book offers a brilliantly original analysis of how industrialists and entrepreneurs, legislators and scientists, public lobbies and private interests, all made sense of the processes that accompanied the establishment of new kinds of capitalist society and their models of welfare, profit and security. Happy Apocalypse will be required reading for anyone concerned with the ways in which current crises of safety and survival can be better understood in their proper historical settings." --Simon Schaffer, University of Cambridge 272 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Environment & Ecology; ISBN/EAN: 9781839765506. Inventory No: dscf12015.
Keywords: BZDB229 Environment & Ecology; Happy Apocalypse A History of Technological Risk JeanBaptiste Frezzos
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Title: Happy Apocalypse: A History of Technological Risk
Description: Verso Books, 2024. Hardcover. Fine Condition. 9781839765506 Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages; bright clean jacket. A well-looked after copy. "Happy Apocalypse offers a compelling, powerful and very timely critique of the claim that we live in a period unprecedentedly marked by an awareness of technological crises and environmental risks. Fressoz shows instead, and in striking detail, how in France and Britain in the decades around 1800, in major fields of concern such as public health, industrial safety and environmental impact, calculations of risk and estimates of safety were both impressively widespread and energetically debated. The book offers a brilliantly original analysis of how industrialists and entrepreneurs, legislators and scientists, public lobbies and private interests, all made sense of the processes that accompanied the establishment of new kinds of capitalist society and their models of welfare, profit and security. Happy Apocalypse will be required reading for anyone concerned with the ways in which current crises of safety and survival can be better understood in their proper historical settings." --Simon Schaffer, University of Cambridge 272 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Environment & Ecology; ISBN/EAN: 9781839765506. Inventory No: dscf12015.
Keywords: BZDB229 Environment & Ecology; Happy Apocalypse A History of Technological Risk JeanBaptiste Frezzos
Price: GBP 20.00 = appr. US$ 28.56 Seller: Denton Island Books
- Book number: dscf12015
- Book number: dscf12015
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