Browsing Department of History and Civilization (HEC) by Author "FRESSOZ, Jean-Baptiste"

Now showing items 1-2 of 2

Title: The Gas Lighting Controversy - Technological Risk, Expertise, and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London Author(s): FRESSOZ, Jean-Baptiste Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: Is the risk society exclusively postmodern? This article addresses this question by examining the controversy on gas lighting in nineteenth-century Paris and London. Unlike other technologies of that time, gas light was ...
Title: Beck back in the 19th century: towards a genealogy of risk society Author(s): FRESSOZ, Jean-Baptiste Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: This article aims at historicizing the 'risk society' thesis (Ulrich Beck). I first present an important book by Eugène Huzar, La Fin du monde par la science (Paris: Dentu, 1855). The author reflects upon the global ...

Now showing items 1-2 of 2

Browse