{"product_id":"governing-risks-in-modern-britain-tom-crook-9781137467447","title":"Governing Risks in Modern Britain: Danger, Safety and Accidents, C. 1800-2000","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor more than 200 years, everyday life in Britain has been beset by a variety of dangers, from the mundane to the life-threatening. \u003ci\u003eGoverning Risks in Modern Britain \u003c\/i\u003efocuses on the steps taken to manage these dangers and to prevent accidents since approximately 1800. It brings together cutting-edge research to help us understand the multiple and contested ways in which dangers have been governed. It demonstrates that the category of 'risk', broadly defined, provides a new means of historicising some key developments in British society. Chapters explore road safety and policing, environmental and technological dangers, and occupational health and safety. The book thus brings together practices and ideas previously treated in isolation, situating them in a common context of risk-related debates, dilemmas and difficulties. Doing so, it argues, advances our understanding of how modern British society has been governed and helps to set our risk-obsessed present in some much needed historical perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tom Crook\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1137467444\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781137467447\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/09\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 315\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 5.99w x 0.89d","brand":"Tom Crook","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48087669309695,"sku":"9781137467447","price":99.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b184fa66-6e53-4d99-a8e9-c4a806f0a18b.jpg?v=1769100742","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/governing-risks-in-modern-britain-tom-crook-9781137467447","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}