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Author:   Martin H. Geyer
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781805390251

ISBN 10:   1805390252
Pages:   258
Publication Date:   14 July 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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List of Tables Introduction Martin H. Geyer Chapter 1. Exploring the Invention of Risk Debates: Natural Disasters, Insuranceand Risk Management in the Late TwentiethCentury Nicolai Hannig Chapter 2. Insuring Catastrophes: Capital Market-Based Forms of Insurance since the 1980s Martin Lengwiler Chapter 3. Places of Risk on the Site of Socialist Modernity: Fighting Industrial Accidents until the GDR Was No More Thomas Lindenberger Chapter 4. From Black Sheriffs to Security Partners ? The Emergence of Private Policing in Public Spaces in Germany since the 1970s Marcus Boeick Chapter 5. Risky Housing: Squatting in London and Hamburg in the 1970s and Early 1980s Christine G. Kruger Chapter 6. Imprisoned Protest: The Body at Risk and Hunger Strikes in the United States in Transnational Perspective, 1968-1985 Maximilian Buschmann Chapter 7. An Inseparable Pair : Freedom and Security in the Schengen Space Isaac Stanley-Becker Chapter 8. It's the Brain, Stupid: Neuroscience, Risk, and Crime Peter Becker Conclusion: From Risks to Emergencies? Martin H. Geyer

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This is a superb collection of essays, coming at an extremely opportune moment, when the global Covid pandemic, the climate emergency, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and political uncertainties in the West are forcing us to reassess the historical roots of current perspectives on risk and risk-taking. * Matthew Stibbe, Sheffield Hallam University

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Martin H. Geyer has been Professor for Modern History at the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich since 1997.His research interests and publications deal with issues of social policies, political scandals, the history of capitalism and political and social theories in the 1970s and 1980s. His recent publications include Kapitalismus und politische Moral in der Zwischenkreigszeit Oder: Wer war Julius Barmat? (Hamburg 2018); and his is currently working on a research project which is entitled The State of Emergency in the 20th Century: What We Can Learn Today from German History of the Interwar Period.

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