Nuclear Power in Britain and Germany: Culture, Emotions, and Rationality

Splitting Societies 1956-1989. Volume One
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-95208-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine

Split into two volumes, volume 1 is a cultural history of technology that provides new insights into the international history of nuclear energy by examining the perspectives of six nuclear power plants’ host communities in Britain and Germany from the 1950s to the late 1980s.

 

Based upon a continuous, qualitative analysis of the public debates in these communities, this book demonstrates that the societal conflicts about atomic power were never confined to the risks of one exceptional energy technology. Instead, they were shaped by larger societal issues which they, in turn, heavily influenced. Therefore, the local discourses about nuclear energy provide an insight into transformations the British and German societies underwent during the Cold War.

 

The book will be of value for scholars and students interested in the history of technology, environmental, political, and contemporary history, as well as science and technology studies. It will be of interest to researchers and members of the public interested in the local history of Biblis, Hinkley Point, Lingen, Oldbury-on-Severn, Stade, and Torness; as well as the wider public interested in the ongoing debates about nuclear power as a source of energy and a potential answer to the challenges of climate change.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gotter, Christian

Götter, Christian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Nuclear Debates  2. Emotional Atoms  3. Rational Atoms

Über Autor(innen)

Christian Götter works at TU Braunschweig (Germany) and specialises in 20th century British and German history. He is mainly interested in the intersection of societal conflicts and communication. His publications include From a Militarily to a Politically Enforced Instrument (2021) and Technologies as Anchors for Societal Conflicts (2022).