Engineering the Revolution

Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815

By: Ken Alder

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Paperback | 15 April 2010 | Edition Number 1

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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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"A work of stunning originality.... An important contribution to a variety of fields." - Ted Porter. "A triumph. It deserves to be read widely, and not just as an inquiry into the origins of modern France." - Donald MacKenzie, "London Review of Books." "In the history of technology, one of the very best books is Ken Alder's Engineering the Revolution, about the ways in which new engineering practices both emerged from and shaped the ideals of the French Revolution." - Peter Galison, American Scientist. "Ken Alder's study of the relations between artifacts, technical life, and politics constitutes a model study in its genre." - Terry Shinn, "Social Studies of Science."

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List of Illustrations	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction: A Revolution of Engineers?	p. 3
Engineering Design: Capital into Coercion, 1763-1793
The Last Argument of the King	p. 23
A Social Epistemology of Enlightenment Engineering	p. 56
Design and Deployment	p. 87
Engineering Production: Coercion into Capital, 1763-1793
The Tools of Practical Reason	p. 127
The Saint-Etienne Armory: Musket-Making and the End of the Ancien Régime	p. 163
Inventing Interchangeability: Mechanical Ideals, Political Realities	p. 221
Engineering Society: Technocracy and Revolution, 1794-1815
The Machine in the Revolution	p. 253
Terror, Technocracy, Thermidor	p. 292
Technological Amnesia and the Entrepreneurial Order	p. 319
Conclusion	p. 344
Abbreviations	p. 353
Notes	p. 355
Bibliography	p. 421
Index	p. 457
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