Civil War ironclads the U.S. Navy and industrial mobilization / William H. Roberts.
| Author/creator | Roberts, William H., 1950- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, |
| Description | xi, 285 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology (Unnumbered) ^A632122 |
| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2001001860 |
| ISBN | 0801868300 (hc : alk. paper) |
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