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Conserving the Enlightenment: French Military Engineering from Vauban to the Revolution Hardcover - 2003
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- Title Conserving the Enlightenment: French Military Engineering from Vauban to the Revolution
- Author Janis Langins
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 568
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
- Date December 1, 2003
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780262122580 / 0262122588
- Weight 2.21 lbs (1.00 kg)
- Dimensions 8.8 x 7.66 x 1.18 in (22.35 x 19.46 x 3.00 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Fortification - France - History - 18th, Military engineering - France - History -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003051355
- Dewey Decimal Code 623.094
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The MIT Press, 2003 8vo (23.5 cm), XVI, 532 pp. Publisher's cloth backed boards and dust jacket. "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 the respective merits of two methods of engineering military fortifications. The story he tells of the tribulations of military engineers at the end of the Old Regime sheds light not only on the evolution of modern engineering but also on the difficulty of innovation in a technical bureaucracy." (from the publisher's description)
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