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Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | A Technological Nation | 21 |
State Engineering before World War II | ||
State Institutions after World War II | ||
What Is a Technocrat? | ||
The Future of France | ||
The Mentality of the Future | ||
The Plan | ||
2 | Technopolitical Regimes | 55 |
The Creation of the CEA | ||
The Emergence of a Nationalist Technopolitical Regime | ||
The G2 Reactor: Developing a Nationalist Technopolitical Regime | ||
EDF: The Emergence of a Nationalized Regime | ||
The EDF1 Reactor: Developing a Nationalized Technopolitical Regime | ||
3 | Technopolitics in the Fifth Republic | 91 |
Technology and Gaullism | ||
Technopolitics from the Fourth to the Fifth Republic: EDF2 and EDF3 | ||
Optimization and the Competitive Kilowatt-Hour | ||
Controlling Fuel and Pricing Plutonium | ||
Industrial Competitiveness, Exporting Reactors, and the Future of France | ||
4 | Technological Unions | 131 |
The Politics of Unionism | ||
Conceptualizing National Technological Progress | ||
Recruiting Technical Elites | ||
5 | Regimes of Work | 163 |
Marcoule | ||
Chinon | ||
6 | Technological Spectacles | 201 |
Salvation, Redemption, and Liberation | ||
Reconciling Modernity and Tradition | ||
Chateaux for the Twentieth Century | ||
The Critics: "Two Steps Away Is the Abyss" | ||
Counter-Spectacle: "When the Tale of Marcoule Is Told" | ||
7 | Atomic Vintage | 241 |
Representations of Public Opinion | ||
Peasants and Engineers: Bagnolais de Souche and Marcoulins | ||
Interlude: Reflections on Local Memory | ||
The Little Kuwait of the Indre-et-Loire | ||
8 | Warring Systems | 271 |
Preliminaries to the War: Public Relations and Technological Mishaps | ||
The War Starts in Earnest: The Horowitz-Cabanius Report | ||
PEON: Defining the Context for Technological Development | ||
Breeder Reactors: Flexibility and Consensus | ||
Unions Strike Back | ||
Boiteux Declares the End of the Gas-Graphite Program | ||
The CEA Strikes | ||
Economic Comparisons, Union-Style | ||
Back to Bagnols | ||
The Cleanup at Saint-Laurent: Healing the Technopolitical Wound | ||
The Battle Fizzles Out | ||
Conclusion | 325 | |
Notes | 341 | |
Bibliography | 413 | |
Index | 447 |
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