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The business of civil war : military mobilization and the state, 1861-1865 / Mark R. Wilson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilson, Mark (Mark R.), 1970-
- Series:
- Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology (Unnumbered)
- Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Contracting out--United States--History--19th century.
- Contracting out.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Economic aspects.
- United States.
- United States. Army--Mobilization--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- The rise and fall of a federal supply system
- The formation of a national bureaucracy
- The making of a mixed military economy
- The trouble with contracting
- The middleman on trial
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-293) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-8883-2
- OCLC:
- 923194410
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