Technological Change and the United States Navy, 1865-1945.

By:

McBride, William M

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology SeriesPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000Copyright date: ©2000Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (353 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780801872853

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Technological Change and the United States Navy, 1865-1945DDC classification:

359/.00973/09034

LOC classification:

VA55 .M33 2000

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Contents:

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Postbellum Naval Profession -- Chapter 2 Competing for Control -- Chapter 3 Refining the Technological Ideal -- Chapter 4 Technological Trajectory -- Chapter 5 Anomalous Technologies of the Great War -- Chapter 6 Controlling Aviation after the World War -- Chapter 7 Disarmament, Depression, and Politics -- Chapter 8 War and a Shifting Technological Paradigm -- Chapter 9 Castles of Steel -- Notes -- Note on Sources -- Index.

Summary: The evolution and persistence of the "battleship navy,he argues, offer direct insight into the dominance of the aircraft-carrier paradigm after 1945 and into the twenty-first century.

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The evolution and persistence of the "battleship navy,he argues, offer direct insight into the dominance of the aircraft-carrier paradigm after 1945 and into the twenty-first century.

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