The radiance of France nuclear power and national identity after World War II
The author of The Radiance of France investigates how technological prowess and national glory (or radiance, which also means radiation in French) became synonymous in France as nowhere else during the post-World War 2 era. -- Provided by publisher.
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
MIT Press
[1998]
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| Colección: | ACLS OA ebooks.
Inside technology. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b44523117*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. A Technological Nation. State Engineering before World War II. State Institutions after World War II. What Is a Technocrat? The Future of France. The Mentality of the Future. The Plan
- 2. Technopolitical Regimes. The Creation of the CEA. The Emergence of a Nationalist Technopolitical Regime. The G2 Reactor: Developing a Nationalist Technopolitical Regime. EDF: The Emergence of a Nationalized Regime. The EDF1 Reactor: Developing a Nationalized Technopolitical Regime
- 3. Technopolitics in the Fifth Republic. Technology and Gaullism. Technopolitics from the Fourth to the Fifth Republic: EDF2 and EDF3. Optimization and the Competitive Kilowatt-Hour. Controlling Fuel and Pricing Plutonium. Industrial Competitiveness, Exporting Reactors, and the Future of France
- 4. Technological Unions. The Politics of Unionism. Conceptualizing National Technological Progress. Recruiting Technical Elites
- 5. Regimes of Work. Marcoule. Chinon
- 6. Technological Spectacles. Salvation, Redemption, and Liberation. Reconciling Modernity and Tradition. Chateaux for the Twentieth Century. The Critics: "Two Steps Away Is the Abyss" Counter-Spectacle: "When the Tale of Marcoule Is Told"
- 7. Atomic Vintage. Representations of Public Opinion. Peasants and Engineers: Bagnolais de Souche and Marcoulins. Interlude: Reflections on Local Memory. The Little Kuwait of the Indre-et-Loire
- 8. Warring Systems. Preliminaries to the War: Public Relations and Technological Mishaps. The War Starts in Earnest: The Horowitz-Cabanius Report. PEON: Defining the Context for Technological Development. Breeder Reactors: Flexibility and Consensus. Unions Strike Back. Boiteux Declares the End of the Gas-Graphite Program. The CEA Strikes. Economic Comparisons, Union-Style. Back to Bagnols. The Cleanup at Saint-Laurent: Healing the Technopolitical Wound. The Battle Fizzles Out.
