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Confluence
The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône
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Sara B. Pritchard
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English
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2011
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Sara B. Pritchard traces the Rhône’s remaking since 1945, showing how state officials, technical elites, and citizens connected the environment and technology to political identities and state-building, and demonstrating the importance of environmental management and technological development to the culture and politics of modern France.
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Original in its contribution, persuasive in its argument, and elegant in its design, this is a highly impressive work. Pritchard outlines the interconnections among technology, environment, and society in a systematic and coherent way. Her innovative treatment of the Rhone develops the 'envirotechnical' approach into a mature, sophisticated, and powerfully compelling analytical tool. A superb piece of scholarship and a remarkable accomplishment.
-- Michael D. Bess, author of The Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960-2000
-- Michael D. Bess, author of The Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960-2000
Pritchard has written an outstanding interdisciplinary study of the efforts to manage the Rhône River since 1945. In so doing, she provides the reader with a perceptive model of the 'envirotech' approach toward understanding complex phenomena involving technology and society.
-- Joel Tarr, Carnegie Mellon University
-- Joel Tarr, Carnegie Mellon University
Pritchard has recovered the fascinating story of France's massive, half-century mobilization of state-of-the-art technological and ecological know-how in transforming the nation's largest river – the unruly Rhone – into a futuristic valley of economic productivity and recreational pleasure.
-- Leo Marx, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
-- Leo Marx, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pritchard examines how the development of the Rhône River has been integral to the modernization of post-WW II France...Expertly linking ecology and technology to the political and cultural history of France, Pritchard illustrates how the Rhône is emblematic of the processes through which "technologies and strategies of environmental management materialized France as a nation in the territorial space declared within its borders." To this end, the importance of the river's value in areas such as hydroelectricity, agriculture, nuclear energy, and industrialism went well beyond the economic realm. Instead, these uses were derived from discursive and material visions at the very core of national identity and the project of nation building.
-- A. C. Stanley Choice
-- A. C. Stanley Choice
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
April 4, 2011
eBook ISBN:
9780674061231
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
392
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5 halftones, 2 line illustrations, 9 maps
eBook ISBN:
9780674061231
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Professional and scholarly;
