UID:
almahu_9949385785002882
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 255 pages)
ISBN:
9780429344404
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0429344406
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9781000043716
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1000043711
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9781000032048
,
1000032043
,
9781000043693
,
100004369X
Series Statement:
Earthscan risk in society series
Content:
"This book answers the need for a contextual, long-term and interpretative analysis of risk from original sources. Risk has historically been a way of imagining what could happen in the future based on expert theories and predictions. This book explores this notion of 'managing the future' by tracing the conceptual development of risk from its origin in Islamic Koranic theology. It follows its long voyage from mercantile law in Medieval Mediterranean to the mathematical invention of probability in games of chance; from the birth of journalism in Britain with Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year to the earthquake of Lisbon in 1755 and the subsequent controversy between apocalyptic believers and enlightened philosophers. Tracking the growth and evolution of risk as a concept across various historical periods and events, Mairal highlights four key features of risk- time, knowledge, relationship and probability- and argues that risk is not based on perception as it is generally presented, but rather on knowledge accrued and developed over a vast historical timeframe. A Pre-Modern Cultural History of Risk will be of great interest to students and scholars of risk management"--
Additional Edition:
Print version: Mairal, Gaspar. A pre-modern cultural history of risk. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020 ISBN 9780367361853
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
DOI:
10.4324/9780429344404
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429344404
