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

Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 285 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology. Contents "I Have Shouldered This Fleet" Gustavus Fox and "Monitor Mania" -- Forging the Fleet: Alban C. Stimers and the Passaic Project -- The Navy Looks West -- Mobilization on the Ohio River -- Miserable Failures: Combat Lessons and Political Engineering -- A Million of Dollars: The Price of "Continuous Improvement" -- Progress Retarded: The Harbor and River Monitors, 1863-1864 -- The Sudden Destruction of Bright Hopes: The Downfall of the General Inspector -- Good for Fifty Years: Winding Down the Mobilization -- Additions, Alterations, and Improvements: Reversing Technological Momentum -- Tabular Data for Passaic- and Tippecanoe-Class Monitors Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject United States. Navy -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. SUBJECT United States. Navy fast Subject Armored vessels -- United States -- History -- 19th century Marine engineering -- United States -- History -- 19th century Industrial mobilization -- United States -- History -- 19th century Shipbuilding industry -- Military aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century HISTORY. Armored vessels Industrial mobilization Marine engineering Military operations, Naval Shipbuilding industry -- Military aspects Technology Zeemacht. Scheepsbouw. Oorlogseconomie. Pantserschepen. SUBJECT United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140251 United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Technology. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140278 Subject United States Verenigde Staten. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 0801873703 9780801873706 0801868300 9780801868306

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