1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991003016559707536

Autore

Coronelli, Vincenzo, O.F.M. Conv. <1650-1718.>

Titolo

Guida de' forestieri sacro-profana per osservare il più ragguardevole nella città di Venezia ... Aggiuntovi il Protogiornale perpetuo per godere le funzioni più cospicue della medesima

Pubbl/distr/stampa

In Venetia, G. B. Tramontin, 1706

Edizione

[ed. 34. più ampliata d'ogni precedente ...]

Descrizione fisica

4 f. p., 212 p.; 13 cm.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Microfilm

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Questa edizione è la 34. del "Protogiornale" e presumibilmente la 5. della "Guida".

Riproduzione in microfiche dell'originale conservato presso la Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910888049803321

Autore

Fressoz Jean-Baptiste

Titolo

Happy Apocalypse : : A History of Technological Risk / / Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, David Broder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Verso UK, , 2024

ISBN

9781839765520

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Soggetti

Science / Global Warming & Climate Change

Political Science / Public Policy / Environmental Policy

Political Science / History & Theory

Political science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Being environmentally conscious is not nearly as modern as we imagine. As a mode of thinking it goes back hundreds of years. Yet we typically imagine ourselves among the first to grasp the impact humanity has on the environment. Hence there is a fashion for green confessions and &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;mea culpas&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;But the notion of a contemporary ecological awakening leads to political impasse. It erases a long history of environmental destruction. Furthermore, by focusing on our present virtues, it overlooks the struggles from which our perspective arose.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;In response, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Happy Apocalypse&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; plunges us into the heart of controversies that emerged in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries around factories, machines, vaccines and railways. Jean-Baptiste Fressoz demonstrates how risk was conceived, managed, distributed and erased to facilitate industrialization. He explores how clinical expertise around 1800 allowed vaccination to be presented as completely benign, how the polluter-pays principle emerged in the nineteenth century to legitimize the chemical industry, how safety norms were invented to secure industrial capital and how criticisms and



objections were silenced or overcome to establish technological modernity.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;Societies of the past did not inadvertently alter their environments on a massive scale. Nor did they disregard the consequences of their decisions. They seriously considered them, sometimes with dread. The history recounted in this book is not one of a sudden awakening but a process of modernising environmental disinhibition.