{"product_id":"the-radiance-of-france-new-edition-paperback","title":"The Radiance of France, new edition - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGabrielle Hecht\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMichel Callon\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or \"radiance,\" which also means \"radiation\" in French) became synonymous in France as nowhere else.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the aftermath of World War II, as France sought a distinctive role for itself in the modern, postcolonial world, the nation and its leaders enthusiastically embraced large technological projects in general and nuclear power in particular. \u003ci\u003eThe Radiance of France\u003c\/i\u003e asks how it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or \"radiance,\" which also means \"radiation\" in French) became synonymous in France as nowhere else.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo answer this question, Gabrielle Hecht has forged an innovative combination of technology studies and cultural and political history in a book that, as Michel Callon writes in the new foreword to this edition, \"not only sheds new light on the role of technology in the construction of national identities\" but is also \"a seminal contribution to the history of contemporary France.\" Proposing the concept of \u003ci\u003etechnopolitical regime\u003c\/i\u003e as a way to analyze the social, political, cultural, and technological dynamics among engineering elites, unionized workers, and rural communities, Hecht shows how the history of France's first generation of nuclear reactors is also a history of the multiple meanings of nationalism, from the postwar period (and France's desire for post-Vichy redemption) to 1969 and the adoption of a \"Frenchified\" American design.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis paperback edition of Hecht's groundbreaking book includes both Callon's foreword and an afterword by the author in which she brings the story up to date, and reflects on such recent developments as the 2007 French presidential election, the promotion of nuclear power as the solution to climate change, and France's aggressive exporting of nuclear technology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGabrielle Hecht is Frank Stanton Foundation Professor of Nuclear Security and Professor of History at Stanford University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II \u003c\/i\u003e(MIT Press). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMichel Callon, developer (with Bruno Latour and others) of Actor Network Theory, is Professor at the École des mines de Paris and a Researcher at the Centre de Sociologie de l'innovation there. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGabrielle Hecht is Frank Stanton Foundation Professor of Nuclear Security and Professor of History at Stanford University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II \u003c\/i\u003e(MIT Press).\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 496\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51754089251104,"sku":"9780262582810","price":72.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/e72a8d4060873cd542daa701ea53ac5b.webp?v=1780033187","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-radiance-of-france-new-edition-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}