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Description for Risk
Yet many of us still like amusement park rides that scare the devil out of us; they dare us to take risks. Num Pages: 344 pages, 21, 21 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKSW; KNXC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 598.
"Risk" is a capacious term used to describe the uncertainties that arise from physical, financial, political, and social activities. Practically everything we do carries some level of risk-threats to our bodies, property, and animals. How do we determine when the risk is too high? In considering this question, Arwen P. Mohun offers a thought-provoking study of danger and how people have managed it from pre-industrial and industrial America up until today. Mohun outlines a vernacular risk culture in early America, one based on ordinary experience and common sense. The rise of factories and machinery eventually led to shocking accidents, which, ... Read more
"Risk" is a capacious term used to describe the uncertainties that arise from physical, financial, political, and social activities. Practically everything we do carries some level of risk-threats to our bodies, property, and animals. How do we determine when the risk is too high? In considering this question, Arwen P. Mohun offers a thought-provoking study of danger and how people have managed it from pre-industrial and industrial America up until today. Mohun outlines a vernacular risk culture in early America, one based on ordinary experience and common sense. The rise of factories and machinery eventually led to shocking accidents, which, ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421407906
SKU
V9781421407906
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-50
About Arwen P. Mohun
Arwen P. Mohun is a professor of history at the University of Delaware. She is author of Steam Laundries: Gender, Technology, and Work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880-1940 and coeditor of Gender and Technology: A Reader, both published by Johns Hopkins.
Reviews for Risk
A thought-provoking study of danger and how people have managed it in American from preindustrial and industrial times up until today.
Steven Goddard History Wire - Where the Past Comes Alive Risk is a fascinating exploration of culture, history, and mankind's tenuous grasp on saving itself from accidents. Midwest Book Review Writing in a lucid style, Mohun gives an ... Read more
Steven Goddard History Wire - Where the Past Comes Alive Risk is a fascinating exploration of culture, history, and mankind's tenuous grasp on saving itself from accidents. Midwest Book Review Writing in a lucid style, Mohun gives an ... Read more