Civil war ironclads : the U.S. navy and industrial mobilization / William H. Roberts.
Pubblicazione:
Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins university press, 2002.
Descrizione fisica:
XI, 285 p. : ill. ; 124 cm
Serie:
Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology
Contiene:
Indice: List of figures and tables. Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. I have shouldered this fleet: Gustavus Fox and monitor mania 2. Forging the fleet: Alban C. Stimers and the passaic project 3. The navy looks west 4. Mobilization on the Ohio River 5. Miserable failures: combat lessons and political engineering 6. A million of dollars: the proce of continuous improvement 7. Progress retarded: the Harbor and river monitors (1863-1864) 8. The sudden destruction of bright hopes: the downfall of the general inspector 9. Good for fifty years: winding down the mobilization 10. Additions, alterations and improvements: reversing technological momentum. Appendix: Tabular data for passaic and tippecanoe class monitors. Abbreviations. Notes. Essay on sources. Index
