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The Business of Civil War : Military Mobilization and the State, 1861-1865.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology SeriesPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (321 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801888830
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Business of Civil WarDDC classification:
  • 973.7/1
LOC classification:
  • E491 .W76 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 The Rise and Fall of a Federal Supply System -- CHAPTER 2 The Formation of a National Bureaucracy -- CHAPTER 3 The Making of a Mixed Military Economy -- CHAPTER 4 The Trouble with Contracting -- CHAPTER 5 The Middleman on Trial -- CHAPTER 6 The Unacknowledged Militarization of America -- APPENDIX A: Note on the Value of a Dollar during the Civil War Era -- APPENDIX B: Leading Northern Military Contractors in Selected Industries -- APPENDIX C: Note on Data Collection and Record Linkages -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Students of the American Civil War will welcome this fresh study of military-industrial production and procurement on the home front--long an obscure topic.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 The Rise and Fall of a Federal Supply System -- CHAPTER 2 The Formation of a National Bureaucracy -- CHAPTER 3 The Making of a Mixed Military Economy -- CHAPTER 4 The Trouble with Contracting -- CHAPTER 5 The Middleman on Trial -- CHAPTER 6 The Unacknowledged Militarization of America -- APPENDIX A: Note on the Value of a Dollar during the Civil War Era -- APPENDIX B: Leading Northern Military Contractors in Selected Industries -- APPENDIX C: Note on Data Collection and Record Linkages -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Students of the American Civil War will welcome this fresh study of military-industrial production and procurement on the home front--long an obscure topic.

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