Gabrielle Hecht is Frank Stanton Foundation Professor of Nuclear Security and Professor of History at Stanford University. She is the author of The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II (MIT Press).
7 Ebooks by Gabrielle Hecht
Michael Thad Allen & Gabrielle Hecht: Technologies of Power
This collection explores how technologies become forms of power, how people embed their authority in technological systems, and how the machines and the knowledge that make up technical systems stren …
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€102.52
Gabrielle Hecht: Radiance of France
How it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or "radiance, " which also means "radiation" in French) became synonymous in France as nowhere else.In the aftermath …
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€102.94
Gabrielle Hecht: Entangled Geographies
Investigations into how technologies became peculiar forms of politics in an expanded geography of the Cold War.The Cold War was not simply a duel of superpowers. It took place not just in Washington …
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€90.30
Peter J. Bloom & Stephan F. Miescher: Modernization as Spectacle in Africa
For postcolonial Africa, modernization was seen as a necessary outcome of the struggle for independence and as crucial to the success of its newly established states. Since then, the rhetoric of mode …
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€9.49
Agatha C. Hughes & Thomas Parke Hughes: Systems, Experts, and Computers
This groundbreaking book charts the origins and spread of the systems movement.After World War II, a systems approach to solving complex problems and managing complex systems came into vogue among en …
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€89.86
Gabrielle Hecht: Being Nuclear
The hidden history of African uranium and what it means-for a state, an object, an industry, a workplace-to be "nuclear."Uranium from Africa has long been a major source of fuel for nuclear …
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€77.30
