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Happy apocalypse : a history of technological risk / Jean-Baptiste Fressoz and translated by David Broder

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: London ; Verso, 2024Description: VII, 259 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781839765506 (hbk)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.483 FRE
Contents:
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.
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.
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BOOKs . 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.