Engineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815

by Ken Alder

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691026718
• ISBN13: 9780691026718
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.6"