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By Charles Coulston Gillispie

By the tip of the eighteenth century, the French ruled the realm of technology. And even if technology and politics had little to do with one another at once, there have been more and more widespread intersections. it is a examine of these transactions among technology and country, wisdom and power--on the eve of the French Revolution. Charles Gillispie explores how the hyperlinks among technological know-how and polity in France have been relating to governmental reform, modernization of the economic system, and professionalization of technological know-how and engineering.

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