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Contents note continued: ch. 11 Technological Networks and Communications -- French Railways: Rationalization and Cybernetics -- Interconnections: Networks of Electricity -- Mass Consumption -- Mass Production -- The Rise of Communications -- Telecommunications -- The Birth of a Communications Socie...

Contents note continued: Science, the Universities, and the State -- ch. 6 Steam Engines -- Domination of Empirical Knowledge before 1850 -- The Birth of Thermodynamics -- Experimental Thermodynamics -- The Conquest of Great Efficiency -- The End of an Era -- ch. 7 The Chemical Industry -- Organic C...

Machine generated contents note: Part One -- ch. 1 The Artisanal Mode of Knowledge -- Industrial Framework: The World of Trades -- Artisanal Knowledge and the Arc of Experience -- The Interaction of Trades -- The Circulation of Knowledge -- ch. 2 From Artisan to Expert -- The Appropriation of Artisa...