Engineering the Revolution
Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815
- Contents
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List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
A Revolution of Engineers?
CONTENTS
PART ONE
Engineering Design: Capital into Coercion, 1763-1793
CHAPTER ONE
The Last Argument of the King
CHAPTER TWO
A Social Epistemology of Enlightenment Engineering
CHAPTER THREE
Design and Deployment
PART TWO
Engineering Production: Coercion into Capital, 1763-1793
CHAPTER FOUR
The Tools of Practical Reason
CHAPTER FIVE
The Saint-Etienne Armory: Musket-Making and the End of the Ancien Régime
CHAPTER SIX
Inventing Interchangeability: Mechanical Ideals, Political Realities
PART THREE
Engineering Society: Technocracy and Revolution, 1794-1815
CHAPTER SEVEN
The Machine in the Revolution
CHAPTER EIGHT
Terror, Technocracy, Thermidor
CHAPTER NINE
Technological Amnesia and the Entrepreneurial Order
CONCLUSION
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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