Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I. The Roots of Gas Lighting -- Chapter 1. Gas Lighting and Pneumatic Chemistry -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 A Gas Plant of the Early Nineteenth Century -- 1.3 Pneumatic Chemistry, 1650-1790 -- 1.4 Apparatus and Techniques of...

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Divergence, Convergence, and the French Path to Industrial Development after 1750 -- 2 A Brave New World of Work: The Reform of the Corporations and the Lettres-Patentes of May 1779 -- 3 Foreign Policy as Industrial Policy: The Anglo-French Commercial Treaty of 1786...