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A Pre-Modern Cultural History of Risk: Imagining the Future: Earthscan Risk in Society

Autor Gaspar Mairal
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This book answers the need for a contextual, long-term and interpretative analysis of risk from original sources.


Risk has historically been a way of imagining what could happen in the future based on expert theories and predictions. This book explores this notion of "managing the future" by tracing the conceptual development of risk from its origin in Islamic Koranic theology. It follows its long voyage from mercantile law and navigation in Medieval Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean, to Columbus' arrival to the Indies and the Spanish exploration and colonization in the Americas. It considers the mathematical invention of probability in games of chance, the birth of journalism in Britain with Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year, the earthquake of Lisbon in 1755 and the subsequent controversy between apocalyptic believers and enlightened philosophers. Tracking the growth and evolution of risk as a concept across various historical periods and events, Mairal highlights four key features of risk - time, knowledge, relationship and probability - and argues that risk is not based on perception as it is generally presented, but rather on knowledge accrued and developed over a vast historical time frame.


A Pre-Modern Cultural History of Risk will be of great interest to students and scholars of risk management.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781032173689
ISBN-10: 1032173688
Pagini: 268
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Earthscan Risk in Society

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Notă biografică

Gaspar Mairal is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Zaragoza, Spain.

Cuprins



1. The Mediterranean Origin of Risk  2. The Conquest of the Ocean  3. When Risk Navigated to the Americas: The Great Adventure of Christopher Columbus  4. When Risk Set Foot in the Americas  5. From Narrative to the Probability Calculus  6. Daniel Defoe and A Journal of the Plague Year  7. The Lisbon Earthquake of 1755, or the First Modern Catastrophe  8. Conclusion: risk in its historical context  Index





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This book answers the need for a contextual, long-term and interpretative analysis of risk from original sources and will be of great interest to students and scholars of risk management.