1st Edition
A Pre-Modern Cultural History of Risk Imagining the Future
By Gaspar Mairal
Copyright 2020
268 Pages
by
Routledge
266 Pages
by
Routledge
266 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
- The Mediterranean Origin of Risk
- The Conquest of the Ocean
- When Risk Navigated to the Americas: The Great Adventure of Christopher Columbus
- When Risk Set Foot in the Americas
- From Narrative to the Probability Calculus
- Daniel Defoe and A Journal of the Plague Year
- The Lisbon Earthquake of 1755, or the First Modern Catastrophe
- Conclusion: risk in its historical context
Biography
Gaspar Mairal is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Zaragoza, Spain.
