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The Age of Machinery: Engineering the Industrial Revolution, 1770–1850. A review essay of Gillian Cookson. Woodbridge, Suffolk, Boydell Press, 2018. Pp. 337. $24.13, paper. - Artisanal Enlightenment: Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France. By Paola Bertucci. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2017. Pp. 312. $35.01, hardcover.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2018

Joel Mokyr*
Affiliation:
Northwestern University

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Footnotes

I am grateful to Morgan Kelly and Cormac Ó Gráda for helpful suggestions on an earlier draft. All remaining errors remain mine. This research was supported by the Balzan Foundation and the Center for Economic History at Northwestern University.