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

Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 461 pages) : illustrations, map Series Inside technology Inside technology. 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 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 Analysis SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Technology SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General ENVIRONMENT/Energy Notes Originally published: 1998. With new foreword and afterword Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-453) and index Notes Print version record Subject Nuclear engineering -- France -- History Nuclear engineering -- Social aspects -- France Nationalism and technology -- France National characteristics, French. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Power Resources -- Nuclear. National characteristics, French Nationalism and technology Nuclear engineering Nuclear engineering -- Social aspects France Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2009005929 ISBN 9780262258890 0262258897 0262582813 9780262582810 1282694545 9781282694545

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