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Happy apocalypse : a history of technological risk /
Fressoz, Jean-Baptiste
Happy apocalypse : a history of technological risk / Jean-Baptiste Fressoz and translated by David Broder - VII, 259 p. ; 24 cm.
List of Abbreviations -
Introduction: Little Modern Disinhibitions -
1 Inoculated with Risk -
2 The Phlanthropic Virus -
3 The Ancien Régime and the Environment -
4 The Birth of the Polluter Pays Principle -
5 Lighting up France after Waterloo -
6 The Mechanics of Fault -
Conclusion -
Afterword: History as a Smoke Detector -
Bibliography -
Index.
"In Happy Apocalypse, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz - co-author of the highly successful The Shock of the Anthropocene - shows how debates on risk and profit in the Industrial Revolution set the foundations of our own precarious times"--
9781839765506 (hbk)
Technology--Risk assessment--History.
Industrialization--Environmental aspects--History.
Environmental risk assessment--History.
Technology and civilization.
Technological innovations--Social aspects--History.
303.483 FRE
Happy apocalypse : a history of technological risk / Jean-Baptiste Fressoz and translated by David Broder - VII, 259 p. ; 24 cm.
List of Abbreviations -
Introduction: Little Modern Disinhibitions -
1 Inoculated with Risk -
2 The Phlanthropic Virus -
3 The Ancien Régime and the Environment -
4 The Birth of the Polluter Pays Principle -
5 Lighting up France after Waterloo -
6 The Mechanics of Fault -
Conclusion -
Afterword: History as a Smoke Detector -
Bibliography -
Index.
"In Happy Apocalypse, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz - co-author of the highly successful The Shock of the Anthropocene - shows how debates on risk and profit in the Industrial Revolution set the foundations of our own precarious times"--
9781839765506 (hbk)
Technology--Risk assessment--History.
Industrialization--Environmental aspects--History.
Environmental risk assessment--History.
Technology and civilization.
Technological innovations--Social aspects--History.
303.483 FRE