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A Pre-Modern Cultural History of Risk
- Imagining the Future
Af: Gaspar Mairal
Engelsk
Bogcover for A Pre-Modern Cultural History of Risk af Gaspar Mairal, 9781032173689
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
268
ISBN-13:
9781032173689
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1032173688
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Udg. Dato:
30 sep 2021
Størrelse i cm:
23,4 x 15,6
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Oplagsdato:
30 sep 2021
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A Pre-Modern Cultural History of Risk

- Imagining the Future
Af: Gaspar Mairal
Engelsk
Paperback 2021
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Paperback
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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 long voyage from mercantile law and navigation in Medieval Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean, to Columbus'' arrival to the Indies and the Spanish exploration and colonization in the Americas. It considers the mathematical invention of probability in games of chance, the birth of journalism in Britain with Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year, 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 time frame.



A Pre-Modern Cultural History of Risk

will be of great interest to students and scholars of risk management.

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268
ISBN-13:
9781032173689
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Paperback
ISBN-10:
1032173688
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Udg. Dato:
30 sep 2021
Størrelse i cm:
23,4 x 15,6
Forlag:
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Oplagsdato:
30 sep 2021
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