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

Informationen zum Autor Ken Alder is the Milton H. Wilson Professor of the Humanities and professor of history at Northwestern University. He is the author of The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error that Transformed the World and The Lie Detectors: The History of an American Obsession. Klappentext By documenting how new gun technology was exploited by 18th century revolutionaries in France and also by Napoleon! Northwestern's Ken Alder clearly demonstrates how material artifacts have emerged as the negotiated outcome of political struggle. Photos. Illus. Zusammenfassung Documents the forging of a fresh relationship between technology and politics in Revolutionary France! and the inauguration of a distinctively modern form of the 'technological life'.

Product details

• Authors: Alder, Ken Alder, Alder Ken
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2010
• EAN: 9780226012643
• ISBN: 978-0-226-01264-3
• No. of pages: 496
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, France, European History, HISTORY / Europe / France, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Military Science, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of engineering and technology, History of engineering & technology, Ordnance, weapons technology, C 1700 To C 1800