Happy apocalypse: a history of technological risk

Media type: E-Book

Title: Happy apocalypse : a history of technological risk

Work titles: Apocalypse joyeuse

Contributor: Fressoz, Jean-Baptiste [Author]; Broder, David [Translator]

Published: London; New York: Verso, 2024

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (pages cm)

Language: English; French

ISBN: 9781839765520

Keywords: Technology Social aspects History ; Technology Risk assessment History ; Industrialization Environmental aspects History ; Environmental risk assessment History ; Technology and civilization ; Technological innovations Environmental aspects History ; Technological innovations Social aspects History

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Footnote: Translation of: Apocalypse joyeuse
Includes bibliographical references and index

Description: "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"--

Access State: Open Access

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