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Conserving the Enlightenment: French Military Engineering from Vauban to the Revolution

Conserving the Enlightenment: French Military Engineering from Vauban to the Revolution

Conserving the Enlightenment: French Military Engineering from Vauban to the Revolution

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Langins, Janis. Conserving the Enlightenment: French Military Engineering from Vauban to the Revolution

MIT Department of Architecture. 2003

Book ID: 83187

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.

548 pp. Cl.