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Ken Alder, Engineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763–1815. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. xvi + 476 pp. $59.50 cloth.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2001

Michael Hanagan
Michael Hanagan
Affiliation:
New School for Social Research
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Abstract

At first sight, a study of French artillery engineers from the Ancien Régime to Napoleon may seem far afield for labor historians. If labor history focuses on how political conflict and struggle mediate relations among labor, capital, and states, then Ken Alder's magnificent study is a signal contribution.

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International Labor and Working-Class History , Volume 55 , April 1999 , pp. 170 - 173
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© 1999 The International Labor and Working-Class History Society

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