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<p>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 approach repudiates technological determinism to document the forging of a new relationship between technology and politics in Revolutionary France. It does so through the history of a particular artifact--the gun. Expanding the "political" to include con
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- Author
- Ken Alder
- Publisher
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1997.
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691026718
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Technology, Political Science, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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