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Civil War ironclads : the U.S. Navy and industrial mobilization / William H. Roberts

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  • Civil War ironclads : the U.S. Navy and industrial mobilization / William H. Roberts
  • Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007
  • 1 vol. (xi-285 p.) : ill., cartes, couv. ill. ; 24 cm
  • Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology
  • 0-8018-8751-8 (rel.)
  • 978-0-8018-8751-2 (rel.)
  • 9780801887512
  • Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology
  • 973.758 21
  • Notes bibliogr. Index
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. "I Have Shouldered This Fleet" -- Gustavus Fox and "Monitor Mania" 9 -- 2. Forging the Fleet -- Alban C. Stimers and the Passaic Project 25 -- 35. The Navy Looks West 45 -- 4. Mobilization on the Ohio River 69 -- 5. Miserable Failures -- Combat Lessons and Political Engineering 84 -- 6. A Million of Dollars -- The Price of"Continuous Improvement" lo1 -- 7. Progress Retarded -- The Harbor and River Monitors, 1863-I864 122 -- 8. The Sudden Destruction of Bright Hopes -- The Downfall of the General Inspector 147 -- 9. Good for Fifty Years -- WindingDown theMobilization 17o -- 1o. Additions, Alterations, and Improvements -- Reversing Technological Momentum 198 -- Appendix -- Tabular Data for Passaic- and -- Tippecanoe-Class Monitors 211 -- Abbreviations 213 -- Notes 215 -- Essay on Sources 269 -- Index 277
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