Governing Risks in Modern Britain [electronic resource] : Danger, Safety and Accidents, c. 1800–2000 / edited by Tom Crook, Mike Esbester.

Erişim Adresi
Link
ISBN
9781137467454
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/1179
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2016.
Yayın Bilgisi
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XIV, 315 p. 7 illus., 4 illus. in color. online resource.
Özet, vb.
For more than 200 years, everyday life in Britain has been beset by a variety of dangers, from the mundane to the life-threatening. Governing Risks in Modern Britain focuses on the steps taken to manage these dangers and to prevent accidents since approximately 1800. It brings together cutting-edge research to help us understand the multiple and contested ways in which dangers have been governed. It demonstrates that the category of ‘risk’, broadly defined, provides a new means of historicising some key developments in British society. Chapters explore road safety and policing, environmental and technological dangers, and occupational health and safety. The book thus brings together practices and ideas previously treated in isolation, situating them in a common context of risk-related debates, dilemmas and difficulties. Doing so, it argues, advances our understanding of how modern British society has been governed and helps to set our risk-obsessed present in some muchneeded historical perspective.
Konu
Great Britain __ History.
Civilization __ History.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Cultural History.
Diğer Yazarlar
Crook, Tom.
Esbester, Mike.
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