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Governing Risks in Modern Britain: Danger, Safety and Accidents, c. 1800–2000 de Tom Crook

Governing Risks in Modern Britain: Danger, Safety and Accidents, c. 1800–2000

Editat de Tom Crook, Mike Esbester
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 dec 2018
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781349691333
ISBN-10: 134969133X
Pagini: 315
Ilustrații: XIV, 315 p. 7 illus., 4 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2016
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

1. Introduction - Risk and the History of Governing Modern Britain, c. 1800–2000 by Tom Crook and Mike Esbester. - PART I: EARLY RISK SOCIETIES. - 2. Risk, Prevention and Policing, c. 1750–1850 by Francis Dodsworth. - 3. Rethinking the History of the Risk Society: Accident Reporting, the Social Order and the London Daily Press during the Early Nineteenth Century by Ryan Vieira. - PART II: ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS. - 4. Artificial Britain: Risk, Systems and Synthetics since 1800 by Chris Otter. - 5. Danger in the Drains: Sewer Gas, Sewerage Systems and the Home, 1850–1900 by Tom Crook. - 6. Public Health and Public Safety: Disinfection, Carbolic and the Plurality of Risk, 1870–1914 by Rebecca Whyte. - 7. Risk, Time and Everyday Environmentalism in Modern Britain by Timothy Cooper. - PART III: MOBILITY AND LEISURE RISKS. - 8. Drunk Driving, Drink Driving: Britain, c. 1800–1920 by Bill Luckin. - 9. Risk on the Roads: Police, Motor Traffic and the Management of Space, c. 1900–1950 by Chris A. Williams. - 10. ‘Maximum Supervision’: Risk, Danger and Public Water in Post-War Britain by Glen O’Hara. - PART IV: OCCUPATIONAL RISKS. - 11. Risk, Responsibility and Robens: The Transformation of the British System of Occupational Health and Safety Regulation, 1961–1974 by Christopher Sirrs. - 12. Il/legitimate Risks? Occupational Health and Safety and the Public in Britain, c. 1960–2015 by Paul Almond and Mike Esbester. - 13. Conclusion: Governing Risks in Britain and Beyond by Arwen P. Mohun, Thomas Le Roux, Tom Crook and Mike Esbester


 

Notă biografică

Tom Crook is Lecturer in Modern British History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He has published a number of edited collections, including (with Glen O’Hara) Statistics and the Public Sphere: Numbers and the People in Modern Britain, c. 1800–2000 (2011). He is currently completing a study of modernity and the governance of public health in Victorian and Edwardian England.
Mike Esbester is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Portsmouth, UK. His research focuses on the history of risk, safety and accident prevention in modern Britain, and has been funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health. He co-edited the April 2015 issue of Technology & Culture, on the international history of road safety.

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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 muchneeded historical perspective.

Caracteristici

Makes an important contribution to an emerging strand of historiography focused on questions of risk and governance in modern Britain Ranges across various subjects, from ‘drunk driving’ in Victorian cities to critiques of apparently needless ‘elf n’ safety’ regulations Emphasises the complex nature of what come to be defined as ‘risks’, and the contestation surrounding both definitions and strategies to manage them