Engineering the Revolution

[Dave Monroe]

>From Ken Alder, Engineering the Revolution: Arms and
Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815 (Princeton, NJ:
Princeton UP, 1997), "Preface," pp. xi-xiv ...


                      PREFACE
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          A screaming comes across the sky.
        --Thomas Pyncheon, Gravity's Rainbow


... er, "Pyncheon (sic)."  Not another word about him
after that, but interesting so far, nonetheless ...

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