Sara B. Pritchard . Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône . (Harvard Historical Studies, number 172.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2011. Pp. xvii, 371. $49.95.
Since the late nineteenth century, a common response to military defeat has been for the vanquished to appropriate modern technologies while interpreting them in terms of longstanding cultural ideals (see Wolfgang Schivelbusch's The Culture of Defeat: On National Trauma, Mourning, and Recovery...
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| description | Since the late nineteenth century, a common response to military defeat has been for the vanquished to appropriate modern technologies while interpreting them in terms of longstanding cultural ideals (see Wolfgang Schivelbusch's The Culture of Defeat: On National Trauma, Mourning, and Recovery [2003]). After humiliating collapse in World War II, postwar France undertook a vast set of engineering projects to reconstruct and modernize the nation, not only for practical purposes but also for compelling displays of renewed national glory. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1080632022-09-30T16:57:58Z Sara B. Pritchard . Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône . (Harvard Historical Studies, number 172.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2011. Pp. xvii, 371. $49.95. Williams, Rosalind H Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society Williams, Rosalind Williams, Rosalind H Since the late nineteenth century, a common response to military defeat has been for the vanquished to appropriate modern technologies while interpreting them in terms of longstanding cultural ideals (see Wolfgang Schivelbusch's The Culture of Defeat: On National Trauma, Mourning, and Recovery [2003]). After humiliating collapse in World War II, postwar France undertook a vast set of engineering projects to reconstruct and modernize the nation, not only for practical purposes but also for compelling displays of renewed national glory. 2017-04-12T14:13:59Z 2017-04-12T14:13:59Z 2012-06 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 19375239 0002-8762 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108063 Williams, Rosalind. “Sara B. Pritchard . Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône . (Harvard Historical Studies, Number 172.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2011. Pp. Xvii, 371. $49.95.” The American Historical Review 117.3 (2012): 945–946. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2744-0116 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/ahr.117.3.945 American Historical Review Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf University of Chicago Press Prof. Rosalind Williams via Michelle Baildon |
| spellingShingle | Williams, Rosalind H Sara B. Pritchard . Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône . (Harvard Historical Studies, number 172.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2011. Pp. xvii, 371. $49.95. |
| title | Sara B. Pritchard . Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône . (Harvard Historical Studies, number 172.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2011. Pp. xvii, 371. $49.95. |
| title_full | Sara B. Pritchard . Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône . (Harvard Historical Studies, number 172.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2011. Pp. xvii, 371. $49.95. |
| title_fullStr | Sara B. Pritchard . Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône . (Harvard Historical Studies, number 172.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2011. Pp. xvii, 371. $49.95. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sara B. Pritchard . Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône . (Harvard Historical Studies, number 172.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2011. Pp. xvii, 371. $49.95. |
| title_short | Sara B. Pritchard . Confluence: The Nature of Technology and the Remaking of the Rhône . (Harvard Historical Studies, number 172.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2011. Pp. xvii, 371. $49.95. |
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