Academic Writings

"Introduction: Thick Things," Isis 98 (2007): 80-83.

"America's Two Gadgets: Of Bombs and Polygraphs," Isis 98 (2007): 124-37.

"A Social History of Untruth: Lie Detection and Trust in Twentieth-Century America." Representations 80 (2002): 1-33.

"History's Greatest Forger: Science, Fiction, and Fraud along the Seine." Critical Inquiry 30 (2004): 702-16.

"Making Things the Same: Technological Representation, Manufacturing Tolerance, and the End of the Old Régime in France." Social Studies of Science 24 (1998): 499-545.

Engineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. Paperback edition, 1999.
http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/6053.html

"Stepson of the Enlightenment: The Duc Du Châtelet, The Colonel Who 'Caused' the French Revolution."
Eighteenth-Century Studies 32 (1998): 1-18.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/eighteenth-century_studies/v032/32.1alder.html

"Do Guns Have Politics? A Reply to Charles Gillispie."
Technology and Culture 39 (1998): 742-54.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/technology_
and_culture/v039/39.4gillispie.html