Engineering the Revolution
From The Mason Historiographiki
Ken Alder. Engineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 1997. Pp. xvi, 476. Cloth $59.50.
Summary
Chapters:
Introduction: A Revolution of Engineers?
Part One: Engineering Design: Capital into Coercion, 1763-1793
Chapter 1: The Last Argument of the King
Chapter 2: A Social Epistomology of Enlightenment Engineering
Chapter 3: Design and Deployment
Part Two: Engineering Production: Coercion into Capital, 1763-1793
Chapter 4: The Tools of Practical Reason
Chapter 5: The Saint-Etienne Armory: Musket Making and the End of the Ancien Regime
Chapter 6: Inventing Interchangeability: Mechanical Ideals, Political Realities
Part Three: Engineering Society: Technocracy
Chapter 7: The Machine in the Revolution
Chapter 8: Terror, Technocracy, Thermidor
Chapter 9: Technological Amnesia and the Entrepreneurial Order
Conclusion
