Governing risks in modern Britain[el...
Crook, Tom.

 

  • Governing risks in modern Britain[electronic resource] :danger, safety and accidents, c. 1800-2000 /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 363.100941
    書名/作者: Governing risks in modern Britain : danger, safety and accidents, c. 1800-2000 // edited by Tom Crook, Mike Esbester.
    其他作者: Crook, Tom.
    出版者: London : : Palgrave Macmillan UK :, 2016.
    面頁冊數: xiv, 315 p. : : ill., digital ;; 22 cm.
    Contained By: Springer eBooks
    標題: Risk assessment - Government policy - 19th century. - Great Britain
    標題: Risk assessment - Government policy - 20th century. - Great Britain
    標題: Risk management - Government policy - 19th century. - Great Britain
    標題: Risk management - Government policy - 20th century. - Great Britain
    標題: History.
    標題: History of Britain and Ireland.
    標題: Cultural History.
    ISBN: 9781137467454
    ISBN: 9781137467447
    摘要、提要註: 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 much needed historical perspective.
    電子資源: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-46745-4
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