| List of Illustrations | |
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction: A Revolution of Engineers? | 3 |
| Pt. 1 | Engineering Design: Capital into Coercion, 1763-1793 | |
| Ch. 1 | The Last Argument of the King | 23 |
| Ch. 2 | A Social Epistemology of Enlightenment Engineering | 56 |
| Ch. 3 | Design and Deployment | 87 |
| Pt. 2 | Engineering Production: Coercion into Capital, 1763-1793 | |
| Ch. 4 | The Tools of Practical Reason | 127 |
| Ch. 5 | The Saint-Etienne Armory: Musket-Making and the End of the Ancien Regime | 163 |
| Ch. 6 | Inventing Interchangeability: Mechanical Ideals, Political Realities | 221 |
| Pt. 3 | Engineering Society: Technocracy and Revolution, 1794-1815 | |
| Ch. 7 | The Machine in the Revolution | 253 |
| Ch. 8 | Terror, Technocracy: Thermidor | 292 |
| Ch. 9 | Technological Amnesia and the Entrepreneurial Order | 319 |
| Conclusion | 344 |
| Abbreviations | 353 |
| Notes | 355 |
| Bibliography | 421 |
| Index | 457 |
