Entrée principale:

Langins, Jānis.

Titre et auteur:

Conserving the Enlightenment : French military engineering from Vauban to the Revolution / Janis Langins.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2004.

Description:

xiv, 532 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Série(s):

Transformations

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 491-521) and index.
I. 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. Early Career of Marc-Rene, Marquis de Montalembert -- 11. Challenge of Montalembert -- 12. Response to Montalembert -- IV. Engineers and Revolution -- 13. Montalembert and the Engineers during the Revolution -- 14. Conservative Art of Military Engineering in Old Regime France.

Résumé:

"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."--Jacket.

Ressources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0262122588
9780262122580

Sujet:

Fortification France History 18th century.
Military engineering France History 18th century.
Fortifications France Histoire 18e siècle.
Génie militaire France Histoire 18e siècle.
21.71 commercial and industrial buildings.
Fortification
Military engineering
Befestigung
Festung
Militärtechnik
Rüstungsindustrie
Vestingwerken.
Militaire techniek.
Techniek.
France
Frankreich

Classification/genre:

History

Vedettes secondaires:

Transformations (M.I.T. Press)

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 247866
Cote: BIB 177403
Statut: Disponible