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Happy apocalypse : a history of technological risk / Jean-Baptiste Fressoz and translated by David Broder
Publisher: London ; Verso, 2024Description: VII, 259 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781839765506 (hbk)
- 303.483 FRE
Contents:
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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.
| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Notes | Barcode | |
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. | Circulation Counter | 303.483 FRE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | HB | Available | Recommended by Dr. Manpreet Singh Dhillon | 40768 |
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"-- Provided by publisher.