Confluence: the nature of technology and the remaking of the Rhone
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| contents | Because of its location, volume, speed, and propensity for severe flooding, the Rhone, France's most powerful river, has long influenced the economy, politics, and transportation networks of Europe. Humans have tried to control the Rhone for over two thousand years, but large-scale development did not occur until the twentieth century. The Rhone valley has undergone especially dramatic changes since World War II. Hydroelectric plants, nuclear reactors, and industrialized agriculture radically altered the river, as they simultaneously fueled both the physical and symbolic reconstruction of France. In Confluence, Sara B. Pritchard traces the Rhone's remaking since 1945. She interweaves this story with an analysis of how state officials, technical elites, and citizens connected the environment and technology to political identities and state-building. In the process, Pritchard illuminates the relationship between nature and nation in France. Pritchard's innovative integration of science and technology studies, environmental history, and the political history of modern France makes a powerful case for envirotechnical analysis: an approach that highlights the material and rhetorical links between ecological and technological systems. Her groundbreaking book demonstrates the importance of environmental management and technological development to culture and politics in the twentieth century. As Pritchard shows, reconstructing the Rhone remade France itself Sara B. Pritchard traces the Rhone'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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| title | Confluence the nature of technology and the remaking of the Rhone |
| title_auth | Confluence the nature of technology and the remaking of the Rhone |
| title_exact_search | Confluence the nature of technology and the remaking of the Rhone |
| title_full | Confluence the nature of technology and the remaking of the Rhone Sara B. Pritchard |
| title_fullStr | Confluence the nature of technology and the remaking of the Rhone Sara B. Pritchard |
| title_full_unstemmed | Confluence the nature of technology and the remaking of the Rhone Sara B. Pritchard |
| title_short | Confluence |
| title_sort | confluence the nature of technology and the remaking of the rhone |
| title_sub | the nature of technology and the remaking of the Rhone |
| topic | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Real Estate / General bisacsh HISTORY / Europe / France bisacsh River engineering fast River engineering Rhone River Watershed (Switzerland and France) Wirtschaft (DE-588)4066399-1 gnd Naturschutz (DE-588)4115348-0 gnd Flussbau (DE-588)4154894-2 gnd Flussregelung (DE-588)4154909-0 gnd Technologie (DE-588)4059276-5 gnd |
| topic_facet | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Real Estate / General HISTORY / Europe / France River engineering River engineering Rhone River Watershed (Switzerland and France) Wirtschaft Naturschutz Flussbau Flussregelung Technologie Departement Rhône Frankreich Rhône |
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