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Confluence : The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Harvard Historical Studies; SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (392 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674061231
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: ConfluenceDDC classification:
  • 333.91/620944
LOC classification:
  • TC472
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Maps and Figures -- Prologue -- Introduction: Nature, Technology, and History -- Chapter 1. Envisioning a New Rhône -- Chapter 2. Imagining the Nation's River -- Chapter 3. Postwar Transformations -- Chapter 4. Local Responses -- Chapter 5. Rethinking the Nation -- Chapter 6. Rethinking the Rhône -- Chapter 7. A New Modern -- Conclusion: Legacies of the Rhône -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: 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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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Maps and Figures -- Prologue -- Introduction: Nature, Technology, and History -- Chapter 1. Envisioning a New Rhône -- Chapter 2. Imagining the Nation's River -- Chapter 3. Postwar Transformations -- Chapter 4. Local Responses -- Chapter 5. Rethinking the Nation -- Chapter 6. Rethinking the Rhône -- Chapter 7. A New Modern -- Conclusion: Legacies of the Rhône -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

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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