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.
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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