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The radiance of France : nuclear power and national identity after World War II / Gabrielle Hecht ; foreword by Michel Callon and a new afterword by the author.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hecht, Gabrielle.
- Series:
- Inside technology.
- Inside technology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nuclear engineering--France--History.
- Nuclear engineering.
- Nuclear engineering--Social aspects--France.
- Nationalism and technology--France.
- Nationalism and technology.
- National characteristics, French.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (497 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or "radiance," which also means "radiation" in French) became synonymous in France as nowhere else.
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Foreword by Michel Callon""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""A Technological Nation""; ""Technopolitical Regimes""; ""Technopolitics in the Fifth Republic""; ""Technological Unions""; ""Regimes of Work""; ""Technological Spectacles""; ""Atomic Vintage""; ""Warring Systems""; ""Conclusion""; ""Afterword""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""Inside Technology""
- Notes:
- Originally published: 1998. With new foreword and afterword.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-69454-5
- 9786612694547
- 0-262-25889-7
- OCLC:
- 505258637
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