Book ID: CBB001500358

L'apocalypse joveuse: Une histoire du risque technologique (2012)

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Fressoz, Jean-Baptiste (Author)


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Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: 320 pp.
Language: French

Sommes-nous les premiers à distinguer dans les lumières éblouissantes du progrès technique, l'ombre de ses dangers ? En occultant la réflexivité environnementale des sociétés passées, ce schéma simpliste dépolitise l'histoire longue de la destruction des environnements et nous empêche de comprendre les ressorts de la crise contemporaine. Pour éviter cette amnésie, une histoire politique du risque technologique et de sa régulation sur la longue durée était nécessaire. L'Apocalypse joyeuse expose l'entrée de la France et de la Grande-Bretagne dans la modernité industrielle (fin XVIIIe-XIXe siècle) : celle des vaccins, des machines, des usines chimiques et des locomotives. Elle nous plonge au cœur des controverses vives qui surgirent autour des risques et des nuisances de ces innovations, et montre comment les critiques et les contestations furent réduites ou surmontées pour qu'advienne la société industrielle. L'histoire du risque ici racontée n'est pas celle d'une prise de conscience, mais celle de la construction d'une certaine inconscience modernisatrice.

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Authors & Contributors
Ashworth, William
Barnett, Julie
Burningham, Kate
Carr, Anna
Clift, Roland
Fressoz, Jean-Baptiste
Journals
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
American Quarterly
British Journal for the History of Science
Business History Review
French History
Histoire & Mesure
Publishers
Brill
Champ Vallon
Franco Angeli
Franz Steiner Verlag
Office for Official Publications of the European Communities
Pickering & Chatto
Concepts
Science and politics
Chemical industry
Industry
Public understanding of science
Science and technology, relationships
Chemistry
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
16th century
Places
France
Great Britain
United States
Italy
India
Soviet Union
Institutions
Tennessee Valley Authority
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Hirnforschung, Berlin-Buch
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