The radiance of France : nuclear power and national identity after World War II / Gabrielle Hecht ; foreword by Michel Callon and a new afterword by the author.
2009
TK9071 .H43 2009eb
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The radiance of France : nuclear power and national identity after World War II / Gabrielle Hecht ; foreword by Michel Callon and a new afterword by the author.
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ISBN
9780262258890 (electronic bk.)
0262258897 (electronic bk.)
0262582813 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780262582810 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1282694545
9781282694545
0262258897 (electronic bk.)
0262582813 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780262582810 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1282694545
9781282694545
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxviii, 461 pages) : illustrations, map.
Call Number
TK9071 .H43 2009eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
621.480944
Summary
How it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or "radiance," which also means "radiation" in French) became synonymous in France as nowhere else.
Note
Originally published: 1998. With new foreword and afterword.
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