Description: Further DetailsTitle: Looking ForwardCondition: NewEAN: 9780226475004ISBN: 9780226475004Publisher: University of Chicago PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 12/08/2017Item Height: 23mmItem Length: 16mmAuthor: Jamie L. PietruskaLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Prediction and Uncertainty in Modern AmericaDescription: In the decades after the Civil War, the world experienced monumental changes in industry, trade, and governance. As Americans faced this uncertain future, public debate sprang up over the accuracy and value of predictions, asking whether it was possible to look into the future with any degree of certainty. In Looking Forward, Jamie L. Pietruska uncovers a culture of prediction in the modern era, where forecasts became commonplace as crop forecasters, "weather prophets," business forecasters, utopian novelists, and fortune-tellers produced and sold their visions of the future. Private and government forecasters competed for authority as well as for an audience and a single prediction could make or break a forecaster's reputation. Pietruska argues that this late nineteenth-century quest for future certainty had an especially ironic consequence: it led Americans to accept uncertainty as an inescapable part of both forecasting and twentieth-century economic and cultural life.Drawing together histories of science, technology, capitalism, environment, and culture, Looking Forward explores how forecasts functioned as new forms of knowledge and risk management tools that sometimes mitigated, but at other times exacerbated, the very uncertainties they were designed to conquer. Ultimately Pietruska shows how Americans came to understand the future itself as predictable, yet still uncertain.Country/Region of Manufacture: USItem Width: 3mmItem Weight: 539gGenre: HistoryTopic: Business & Finance, Society & Culture, Social SciencesRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Looking Forward
Title: Looking Forward
EAN: 9780226475004
ISBN: 9780226475004
Release Date: 12/08/2017
Release Year: 2017
Subtitle: Prediction and Uncertainty in Modern America
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Topic: Social Sciences
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Looking Forward : Prediction and Uncertainty in Modern America
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2017
Subject: United States / 20th Century, United States / 19th Century, Decision-Making & Problem Solving, Future Studies, History, Forecasting, Prophecy
Item Height: 1.1 in
Item Weight: 19.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Jamie L. Pietruska
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Body, Mind & Spirit, Social Science, Science, Business & Economics, History
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
