Title 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.

Publication Info.	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2009]
	©2009

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Description	1 online resource (xxviii, 461 pages) : illustrations, map.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Inside technology
	Inside technology.
Note	Originally published: 1998. With new foreword and afterword.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-453) and index.
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""
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Subject	Nuclear engineering -- France -- History.
	Nuclear engineering.
	France.
	History.
	Nuclear engineering -- Social aspects -- France.
	Nuclear engineering -- Social aspects.
	Nationalism and technology -- France.
	Nationalism and technology.
	National characteristics, French.
	National characteristics, French.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Hecht, Gabrielle. Radiance of France. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009 9780262582810 (DLC) 2009005929 (OCoLC)306803885
ISBN	9780262258890 (electronic book)
	0262258897 (electronic book)
	0262582813 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
	9780262582810 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
	1282694545
	9781282694545
	9780262582810 (paperback ; alkaline paper)

Title 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.

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