Engineering the Revolution
arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815
by Ken Alder
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 technology and politics in Revolutionary France. It does so through the history of a particular artifact - the gun. Expanding the "political" to include conflict over material objects, Ken Alder rethinks the nature of engineering rationality, the origins of mass production, and our interpretation of the French Revolution.
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Politics and government, Technology and civilization, Political aspects of Technology and civilization, Enlightenment, Military History, Artillery, Influence, Technological innovations, Military engineers, Political activity, History, France, history, revolution, 1789-1799, causes, Artillerie, Innovations, Histoire, Ingénieurs militaires, Activité politique, Siècle des Lumières, Technologie et civilisation, Aspect politique, Politique et gouvernement, Histoire militaire, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.), Political aspects, Wapenproductie, Franse Revolutie, Technische vernieuwing, Armes, Technique et civilisation, Mouvement des LumièresPlaces
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Engineering the Revolution: arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815
1997, Princeton University Press
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0691026718 9780691026718
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