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The radiance of France : nuclear power and national identity after World War II
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The radiance of France : nuclear power and national identity after World War II

Publisher: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2009.
Series: Inside technology
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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How it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or "radiance," which also means "radiation" in French) became synonymous in France as nowhere else.

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Document Type: Book
ISBN: 9780262582810 0262582813
OCLC Number: 605896583
Notes: Originally published: 1998. With new foreword and afterword.
Awards: Winner of Edelstein Prize for an Outstanding Book on the History of Technology 2001.
Winner of American Historical Association's Herbert Baxter Adams Prize 1999.
Description: XXVIII, 461 S. : Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
Series Title: Inside technology
Responsibility: Gabrielle Hecht ; foreword by Michel Callon and a new afterword by the author.
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"This elegantly written book is an important contribution to the history of modern France and sets a demanding new standard for social studies of technology." --Donald MacKenzie, University of Read more...

 
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