Engineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815 by Ken Alder

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

Ken Alder

476 pages first pub 1997 (view editions)

nonfiction history adventurous medium-paced
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The French Revolution and Industrial Revolution together inaugurated the modern era. But recent historical "revisionists" have divorced eighteenth-century material conditions from concurrent political struggles. This book's anti-teleological appro...

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