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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b10246951.
- catalog coverage "France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Influence.".
- catalog coverage "France History, Military 1789-1815.".
- catalog coverage "France Politics and government 1789-1815.".
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "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. Ch. 4. The Tools of Practical Reason. Ch. 5. The Saint-Etienne Armory: Musket-Making and the End of the Ancien Regime. Ch. 6. Inventing Interchangeability: Mechanical Ideals, Political Realities -- pt. 3. Engineering Society: Technocracy and Revolution, 1794-1815. Ch. 7. The Machine in the Revolution. Ch. 8. Terror, Technocracy: Thermidor. Ch. 9. Technological Amnesia and the Entrepreneurial Order.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 476 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0691026718 (cl : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "9780226012650 (electronic bk.)".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Princeton : Princeton University Press,".
- catalog spatial "France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Influence.".
- catalog spatial "France History, Military 1789-1815.".
- catalog spatial "France Politics and government 1789-1815.".
- catalog spatial "France".
- catalog spatial "France.".
- catalog subject "944.04 20".
- catalog subject "Artillery Technological innovations France History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "DC151 .A58 1997".
- catalog subject "Enlightenment France Influence.".
- catalog subject "Military engineers France Political activity History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Military engineers Political activity France History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Technology and civilization France Political aspects.".
- catalog subject "Technology and civilization Political aspects France.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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. Ch. 4. The Tools of Practical Reason. Ch. 5. The Saint-Etienne Armory: Musket-Making and the End of the Ancien Regime. Ch. 6. Inventing Interchangeability: Mechanical Ideals, Political Realities -- pt. 3. Engineering Society: Technocracy and Revolution, 1794-1815. Ch. 7. The Machine in the Revolution. Ch. 8. Terror, Technocracy: Thermidor. Ch. 9. Technological Amnesia and the Entrepreneurial Order.".
- catalog title "Engineering the Revolution : arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815 / Ken Alder.".
- catalog type "text".