Download or read book Engineering the Revolution written by Ken Alder and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Culture of Urban Fear written by Aaron Charles Freundschuh and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canadian Military Heritage 1000 1754 written by René Chartrand and published by National Defence, Directorate of History and Heritage. This book was released on 1993 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic drama with a host of actors, Amerindians, Vikings, Basques, French, English . Seven centuries of stirring adventure played out both at sea and on a continent whose vastness beggared the imagination of the Europeans who had come here. A common destiny pursued at Versailles, Quebec, Louisburg, Boston and Niagara.The author, who is Chief Curator of Historic Sites with the Canadian Parks Service, drew much of his inspiration from elements of the material culture, forts and barracks, uniforms, weapons and archeological remains to bring military operations in North America to life and foster a better understanding of how they were conducted. He devotes much of his book to the daily routine of soldiers and officers in New France and the often-misunderstood role that they played, not only in developing our society, but also in revolutionizing military tactics. It is a history book, reference work and art book all in one."
Download or read book Quebec 1759 written by Charles Perry Stacey and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fall of Quebec in 1759 to British forces under James Wolfe led to the ultimate defeat of the French empire in North America. The dramatic battle on the Plains of Abraham not only set the course for the future of Canada; it opened the door to the independence of the American colonies some 20 years later. Stacey's account is regarded as the best ever written. This new edition contains all the text and the pictures of the previous editon, in a smart and generous new format.
Download or read book The Path Not Taken written by Jeff Horn and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008-08-29 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Path Not Taken, Jeff Horn argues that—contrary to standard, Anglocentric accounts—French industrialization was not a failed imitation of the laissez-faire British model but the product of a distinctive industrial policy that led, over the long term, to prosperity comparable to Britain's. Despite the upheavals of the Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, France developed and maintained its own industrial strengths. France was then able to take full advantage of the new technologies and industries that emerged in the "second industrial revolution," and by the end of the nineteenth century some of France's industries were outperforming Britain's handily. The Path Not Taken shows that the foundations of this success were laid during the first industrial revolution. Horn posits that the French state's early attempt to emulate Britain's style of industrial development foundered because of revolutionary politics. The "threat from below" made it impossible for the state or entrepreneurs to control and exploit laborers in the British manner. The French used different means to manage labor unruliness and encourage innovation and entrepreneurialism. Technology is at the heart of Horn's analysis, and he shows that France, unlike England, often preferred still-profitable older methods of production in order to maintain employment and forestall revolution. Horn examines the institutional framework established by Napoleon's most important Minister of the Interior, Jean-Antoine Chaptal. He focuses on textiles, chemicals, and steel, looks at how these new institutions created a new industrial environment. Horn's illuminating comparison of French and British industrialization should stir debate among historians, economists, and political scientists.
Download or read book Les armes de guerre portatives en France du d but du regne de Louis XIV la veille de la R volution 1660 1789 written by François Bonnefoy and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Les Armes de guerre portatives en France du d but du r gne de Louis XIV la veille de la R volution 1660 1789 written by François Bonnefoy and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Les armes de guerre portatives en France du d but du r gne de Louis XIV la veille de la R volution 1660 1789 de l ind pendance la primaut 2 written by François Bonnefoy and published by FeniXX. This book was released on 1991-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: « Le colonel Bonnefoy apporte une contribution essentielle à l'histoire militaire de la France moderne. Sa thèse analyse, avec autant de clarté que de rigueur, des progrès techniques, technologiques et tactiques, sans lesquels la France n'aurait pas été en mesure de dominer l'Europe continentale à l'aube de l'ère contemporaine. » Jean Chagniot, professeur à l'Université de Picardie. « On a souvent raconté des batailles, et les musées exposent les armes conservées, mais un chaînon manquait. Avec l'ouvrage du colonel Bonnefoy, les instruments de combat - et les hommes qui les ont conçus, fabriqués, expérimentés – prennent, dans nos connaissances, la place qui leur revient. Ainsi, on comprendra mieux ce que furent l'art militaire et la guerre, de Louis XIV à la Révolution. » Professeur émérite André Corvisier, président d'honneur de la Commission internationale d'Histoire militaire. « Le XVIIIe siècle est une grande époque, en France, pour la réflexion stratégique et tactique. Mais il manquait, jusqu'alors, pour l'étudier avec fruit, un travail de base sur les armes portatives - particulièrement le fusil - dont l'apparition sur le champ de bataille a des conséquences considérables sur les méthodes de combat. François Bonnefoy, au prix d'un dépouillement considérable d'archives, apporte désormais une précieuse information, non seulement sur l'évolution technique du fusil, mais sur les structures de production et leur place dans la vie économique du pays. » Général (c. r.) Jean Delmas, président de la Commission française d'Histoire militaire. « Paradoxalement, l'industrie de guerre française de l'époque moderne n'avait pas donné lieu à une étude approfondie. La lacune est désormais comblée. Se révèle ainsi, grâce à l'extraordinaire documentation amassée par le colonel Bonnefoy, la mise en place d'une très forte industrie d'armement sous Louis XIV. Sur cette base, la technologie française accentue, au XVIIIe siècle, son avance. La thèse de François Bonnefoy dévoile ainsi un pan majeur de l'histoire militaire et, plus encore, de l'histoire nationale de notre pays. » Jean Meyer, professeur à l'Université de Paris Sorbonne
Download or read book Les armes de guerre portatives en France du d but du r gne de Louis XIV la veille de la R volution 1660 1789 de l ind pendance la primaut 1 written by François Bonnefoy and published by FeniXX. This book was released on 1991-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: « Le colonel Bonnefoy apporte une contribution essentielle à l'histoire militaire de la France moderne. Sa thèse analyse, avec autant de clarté que de rigueur, des progrès techniques, technologiques et tactiques, sans lesquels la France n'aurait pas été en mesure de dominer l'Europe continentale à l'aube de l'ère contemporaine. » Jean Chagniot, professeur à l'Université de Picardie. « On a souvent raconté des batailles, et les musées exposent les armes conservées, mais un chaînon manquait. Avec l'ouvrage du colonel Bonnefoy, les instruments de combat - et les hommes qui les ont conçus, fabriqués, expérimentés – prennent, dans nos connaissances, la place qui leur revient. Ainsi, on comprendra mieux ce que furent l'art militaire et la guerre, de Louis XIV à la Révolution. » Professeur émérite André Corvisier, président d'honneur de la Commission internationale d'Histoire militaire. « Le XVIIIe siècle est une grande époque, en France, pour la réflexion stratégique et tactique. Mais il manquait, jusqu'alors, pour l'étudier avec fruit, un travail de base sur les armes portatives - particulièrement le fusil - dont l'apparition sur le champ de bataille a des conséquences considérables sur les méthodes de combat. François Bonnefoy, au prix d'un dépouillement considérable d'archives, apporte désormais une précieuse information, non seulement sur l'évolution technique du fusil, mais sur les structures de production et leur place dans la vie économique du pays. » Général (c. r.) Jean Delmas, président de la Commission française d'Histoire militaire. « Paradoxalement, l'industrie de guerre française de l'époque moderne n'avait pas donné lieu à une étude approfondie. La lacune est désormais comblée. Se révèle ainsi, grâce à l'extraordinaire documentation amassée par le colonel Bonnefoy, la mise en place d'une très forte industrie d'armement sous Louis XIV. Sur cette base, la technologie française accentue, au XVIIIe siècle, son avance. La thèse de François Bonnefoy dévoile ainsi un pan majeur de l'histoire militaire et, plus encore, de l'histoire nationale de notre pays. » Jean Meyer, professeur à l'Université de Paris Sorbonne
Download or read book The Police of Paris 1718 1789 written by Alan Williams and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nationalizing Science written by Alan J. Rocke and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2000-11-08 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After looking at the early careers of Wurtz's two mentors, Liebig and Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Rocke describes Wurtz's life and career in the politically complex period leading up to 1853. He then discusses the turning point in Wurtz's intellectual life—his conversion to the "reformed chemistry" of Laurent, Gerhardt, and Williamson—and his efforts to persuade his colleagues of the advantages of the new system. In 1869, Adolphe Wurtz (1817-1884) called chemistry "a French science." In fact, however, Wurtz was the most internationalist of French chemists. Born in Strasbourg and educated partly in the laboratory of the great Justus Liebig, he spent his career in Paris, where he devoted himself to introducing German ideas into French scientific circles. His life therefore provides an excellent vehicle for considering the divergent trajectories of French and German chemistry—and, by extension, French and German science—during this crucial period. After looking at the early careers of Wurtz's two mentors, Liebig and Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Rocke describes Wurtz's life and career in the politically complex period leading up to 1853. He then discusses the turning point in Wurtz's intellectual life—his conversion to the "reformed chemistry" of Laurent, Gerhardt, and Williamson—and his efforts (social and political, as well as scientific) to persuade his colleagues of the advantages of the new system. He looks at political patronage, or the lack thereof, and at the insufficient material support from the French government, during the middle decades of the century. From there Rocke goes on to examine the rivalry between Wurtz and Marcellin Berthelot, the debate over atoms versus equivalents, and the reasons for Wurtz's failure to win acceptance for his ideas. The story offers insights into the changing status of science in this period, and helps to explain the eventual course of both French and German chemistry.
Download or read book Joseph II written by Walter W. Davis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been said that never has a monarch so narrowly missed "greatness" as did the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II. An idealistic, sincere, and hardworking monarch whose ultilitarian bent, humanitarian instincts, and ambitious programs of reform in every area of public concern have prompted historians to term him an "enlightened despot," "revolutionary Emperor," "philosopher on a throne," and a ruler ahead of his time, Joseph has also been condemned for being insensitive to the phobias and follies of his subjects, essentially unrealistic, almost utopian, in establishing his goals, and dogmatic and overly precipitous in trying to achieve them. Efforts to analyze and explain the actions of this complex and controversial personality have involved a number of savants in investigations of "Josephinism" (or as I prefer to call it, "Josephism"), dealing in great detail with the motiva tions, substance, and influence of his innovations. The roots of Josephism run deep, but can be observed emerging here and there from the intellectual and political soil that nourished them, before joining the central trunk of the system formulated during the latter years of Maria Theresa's reign to grow to an ephemeral and stunted maturity under Joseph II.
Download or read book Journal of My Life written by Jacques-Louis Ménétra and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jaques-Louis Menetra's journal reads like a historian's dream come true. It conveys his understanding of what it meant to grow up in Paris, where he was born in 1738; to tramp around provincial shops on a journeyman's tour de France; to settle down as a Parisian master with a shop and family of his own; and to live through the great events of the Revolution as a militant in his local Section.
Download or read book Historia written by Gianna Pomata and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays examine how the genre of historia reflects connections between the study of nature and the study of culture in early modern scholarly pursuits. The early modern genre of historia connected the study of nature and the study of culture from the early Renaissance to the eighteenth century. The ubiquity of historia as a descriptive method across a variety of disciplines--including natural history, medicine, antiquarianism, and philology--indicates how closely intertwined these scholarly pursuits were in the early modern period. The essays collected in this volume demonstrate that historia can be considered a key epistemic tool of early modern intellectual practices. Focusing on the actual use of historia across disciplines, the essays highlight a distinctive feature of early modern descriptive sciences: the coupling of observational skills with philological learning, empiricism with erudition. Thus the essays bring to light previously unexamined links between the culture of humanism and the scientific revolution. The contributors, from a range of disciplines that echoes the broad scope of early modern historia, examine such topics as the development of a new interest in historical method from the Renaissance artes historicae to the eighteenth-century tension between "history" and "system"; shifts in Aristotelian thought paving the way for revaluation of historia as descriptive knowledge; the rise of the new discipline of natural history; the uses of historia in anatomical and medical investigation and the writing of history by physicians; parallels between the practices of collecting and presenting information in both natural history and antiquarianism; and significant examples of the ease with which early seventeenth-century antiquarian scholars moved from studies of nature to studies of culture.
Download or read book Lists of Foreign Protestants and Aliens Resident in England 1618 1688 written by William Durrant Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Picturing Machines 1400 1700 written by Wolfgang Lefevre and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004-07-16 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How technical drawings shaped early engineering practice. Technical drawings by the architects and engineers of the Renaissance made use of a range of new methods of graphic representation. These drawings—among them Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawings of mechanical devices—have long been studied for their aesthetic qualities and technological ingenuity, but their significance for the architects and engineers themselves is seldom considered. The essays in Picturing Machines 1400–1700 take this alternate perspective and look at how drawing shaped the practice of early modern engineering. They do so through detailed investigations of specific images, looking at over 100 that range from sketches to perspective views to thoroughly constructed projections. In early modern engineering practice, drawings were not merely visualizations of ideas but acted as models that shaped ideas. Picturing Machines establishes basic categories for the origins, purposes, functions, and contexts of early modern engineering illustrations, then treats a series of topics that not only focus on the way drawings became an indispensable means of engineering but also reflect the main stages in their historical development. The authors examine the social interaction conveyed by early machine images and their function as communication between practitioners; the knowledge either conveyed or presupposed by technical drawings, as seen in those of Giorgio Martini and Leonardo; drawings that required familiarity with geometry or geometric optics, including the development of architectural plans; and technical illustrations that bridged the gap between practical and theoretical mechanics.
Download or read book Artisan Reports on the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1878 written by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
