Engineering the Revolution : arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815 / Ken Alder.
Engineering the Revolution : arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815 / Ken Alder.
Engineering the Revolution : arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815 / Ken Alder.
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1997.
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N944.04/240
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English
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xvi, 476 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents
Introduction: A Revolution of Engineers? -- Pt. 1. Engineering Design: Capital into Coercion, 1763-1793. Ch. 1. The Last Argument of the King. Ch. 2. A Social Epistemology of Enlightenment Engineering. Ch. 3. Design and Deployment -- Pt. 2. Engineering Production: Coercion into Capital, 1763-1793. C...
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1997.
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New Jersey
Date Published
c1997.
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The French Revolution and Industrial Revolution together inaugurated the modern era. But recent historical "revisionists" have divorced eighteenth-century material conditions from concurrent political struggles. This book's anti-teleological approach repudiates technological determinism to document the forging of a new relationship between technolo...
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Engineering the Revolution : arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815 / Ken Alder.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c1997.
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N944.04/240
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0691026718
9780691026718 (cl : alk. paper)
0691026718 (cl : alk. paper)
9780691026718
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944.04
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991011485999702626
