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| Document Type: | Book |
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| 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 Edinburgh, author of An Engine, Not a Camera "This is a superb book, one that takes up the hazy notion of technological 'style' and transforms it into a complex story of conflict and negotiation about what it means to be French in the late twentieth century, and--more generally--what it means to be a participant in a world of high technology." --Ken Alder, Department of History, Northwestern University "Historian Gabrielle Hecht has brilliantly deployed the tools of the engineer, anthropologist, literary critic, and social theorist to analyze how the nuclear industry became integral to France's revival after World War II. The book has become a landmark in the literature on postwar France and a model for how to blend the history of technology with the study of politics and culture." --Herrick Chapman, New York University Read more...
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- Nuclear engineering -- France -- History.
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