{"product_id":"risk-arwen-p-mohun-9781421407906","title":"Risk: Negotiating Safety in American Society","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow have Americans confronted, managed, and even enjoyed the risks of daily life?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Ralph Gomory Prize of the Business History Conference\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMohun 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, she explains, risk-management experts and the \"gospel of safety\" sought to counter. Finally, she examines the simultaneous blossoming of risk-taking as fun and the aggressive regulations that follow from the consumer-products-safety movement. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRisk and society, a rapidly growing area of historical research, interests sociologists, psychologists, and other social scientists. Americans have learned to tame risk in both the workplace and the home. Yet many of us still like amusement park rides that scare the devil out of us; they dare us to take risks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Arwen P. Mohun\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1421407906\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421407906\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/26\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2013","brand":"Arwen P. Mohun","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49082748436735,"sku":"9781421407906","price":60.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/risk-arwen-p-mohun-9781421407906","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}