Engineering the Revolution

Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815

Nonfiction, History, Military, Weapons, Science & Nature, Technology, Military Science
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Author: Ken Alder ISBN: 9780226012650
Publisher: University of Chicago Press Publication: April 15, 2010
Imprint: University of Chicago Press Language: English
Author: Ken Alder
ISBN: 9780226012650
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication: April 15, 2010
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Language: English

Engineering the Revolution documents the forging of a new relationship between technology and politics in Revolutionary France, and the inauguration of a distinctively modern form of the “technological life.”  Here, Ken Alder rewrites the history of the eighteenth century as the total history of one particular artifact—the gun—by offering a novel and historical account of how material artifacts emerge as the outcome of political struggle. By expanding the “political” to include conflict over material objects, this volume rethinks the nature of engineering rationality, the origins of mass production, the rise of meritocracy, and our interpretation of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.

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Engineering the Revolution documents the forging of a new relationship between technology and politics in Revolutionary France, and the inauguration of a distinctively modern form of the “technological life.”  Here, Ken Alder rewrites the history of the eighteenth century as the total history of one particular artifact—the gun—by offering a novel and historical account of how material artifacts emerge as the outcome of political struggle. By expanding the “political” to include conflict over material objects, this volume rethinks the nature of engineering rationality, the origins of mass production, the rise of meritocracy, and our interpretation of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.

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