Risk Culture: Performance and Danger in Early America

by Joseph Fichtelberg

"As a number of recent studies have shown, the north European commercial world made the precise calculation of risk a central concern of the intellectual project of exploration, trade, and colonization. The great merit of Fichtelberg's book is systematizing the imaged world of dangers, and charting the various kinds of ritual and discursive performances marshaled to deal with the pressure of the unspeakable in early America from the 17th into the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472070940
• ISBN13: 9780472070947
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"