Jean-Baptiste Fressoz is a historian of science and technology, previously at Imperial College London, now based in Paris at the Centre Nationalde la Recherche Scientifique. He is the author of The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us (with Christophe Bonneuil) and Chaos in the Heavens: The Forgotten History of Climate Change (with Fabien Locher).
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Little Modern Disinhibitions
1 Inoculated with Risk
2 The Philanthropic Virus
3 The Ancien Régime and Humanity’s ‘Environmental Surroundings’
4 Liberalising the Environment
5 Lighting up France after Waterloo
6 The Mechanics of Fault
Conclusion
Afterword
Index
