Conserving the Enlightenment : French military engineering from Vauban to the Revolution /
"The origins of the modern science of engineering can be traced to France's Royal Corps of Engineering in the eighteenth century. In Conserving the Enlightenment, Janis Langins gives us a history of this prototypical technical bureaucracy, using as his point of entry a pivotal dispute on t...
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| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
c2004.
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| Schriftenreihe: | Transformations (M.I.T. Press)
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Inhaltsangabe:
- I. The Setting
- 1. Early Modern Artillery Fortification
- 2. French Fortification in the Age of Vauban
- 3. Toward a Corps Royal du Genie
- II. Life And Death in the Corps
- 4. Siegecraft
- 5. Desk Jobs
- III. Crisis
- 6. Engineering and Its Discontents
- 7. Soldiers, Nobles, and Engineers
- 8. Thinking Wars
- 9. Science and Military Engineering
- 10. The Early Career of Marc-Rene, Marquis de Montalembert
- 11. The Challenge of Montalembert
- 12. The Response to Montalembert
- IV. Engineers and Revolution
- 13. Montalembert and the Engineers during the Revolution
- 14. The Conservative Art of Military Engineering in Old Regime France.