Crook, Tom (Editor)
Mike Esbester (Editor)
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 2016
Language: English
For more than 200 years, everyday life in Britain has been beset by a variety of dangers, from the mundane to the life-threatening. Governing Risks in Modern Britain focuses 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.
...MoreReview Ryan Ross (2016) Review of "Governing Risks in Modern Britain: Danger, Safety and Accidents, c. 1800-2000". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 654-655).
Review Kostas Tampakis (2016) Review of "Governing Risks in Modern Britain: Danger, Safety and Accidents, c. 1800-2000". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 655-657).
Chapter Francis Dodsworth (2016) Risk, Prevention and Policing, c. 1750–1850. In: Governing Risks in Modern Britain: Danger, Safety and Accidents, c. 1800-2000 (pp. 29-53).
Chapter Rebecca Whyte (2016) Public Health and Public Safety: Disinfection, Carbolic and the Plurality of Risk, 1870–1914. In: Governing Risks in Modern Britain: Danger, Safety and Accidents, c. 1800-2000 (pp. 127-147).
Chapter Timothy Cooper (2016) Risk, Time and Everyday Environmentalism in Modern Britain. In: Governing Risks in Modern Britain: Danger, Safety and Accidents, c. 1800-2000 (pp. 149-168).
Chapter Sirrs Christopher (2016) Risk, Responsibility and Robens: The Transformation of the British System of Occupational Health and Safety Regulation, 1961–74. In: Governing Risks in Modern Britain: Danger, Safety and Accidents, c. 1800-2000 (pp. 249-276).
Chapter Ryan Vieira (2016) Rethinking the History of the Risk Society: Accident Reporting, the Social Order and the London Daily Press, 1800–30. In: Governing Risks in Modern Britain: Danger, Safety and Accidents, c. 1800-2000 (pp. 55-76).
Chapter Glen O'Hara (2016) ‘Maximum Supervision’: Risk, Danger and Public Water in Post-War Britain. In: Governing Risks in Modern Britain: Danger, Safety and Accidents, c. 1800-2000 (pp. 221-246).
Chapter Paul Almond (2016) Il/Legitimate Risks? Occupational Health and Safety and the Public in Britain, c. 1960–2015. In: Governing Risks in Modern Britain: Danger, Safety and Accidents, c. 1800-2000 (pp. 277-296).
Chapter Bill Luckin (2016) Drunk Driving, Drink Driving: Britain, c. 1800–1920. In: Governing Risks in Modern Britain: Danger, Safety and Accidents, c. 1800-2000 (pp. 171-194).
Chapter Tom Crook (2016) Danger in the Drains: Sewer Gas, Sewerage Systems and the Home, 1850–1900. In: Governing Risks in Modern Britain: Danger, Safety and Accidents, c. 1800-2000 (pp. 105-126).
Chapter Mohun, Arwen P. (2016) Conclusion: Governing Risks in Britain and Beyond. In: Governing Risks in Modern Britain: Danger, Safety and Accidents, c. 1800-2000 (pp. 297-307).
Chapter Chris Otter (2016) Artificial Britain: Risk, Systems and Synthetics Since 1800. In: Governing Risks in Modern Britain: Danger, Safety and Accidents, c. 1800-2000 (pp. 79-103).
Chapter Tom Crook; Mike Esbester (2016) Risk and the History of Governing Modern Britain, c. 1800–2000. In: Governing Risks in Modern Britain: Danger, Safety and Accidents, c. 1800-2000 (pp. 1-26).
Chapter Chris A. Williams (2016) Risk on the Roads: Police, Motor Traffic and the Management of Space, c. 1900–50. In: Governing Risks in Modern Britain: Danger, Safety and Accidents, c. 1800-2000 (pp. 195-219).
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