The business of civil war : military mobilization and the state, 1861-1865

The business of civil war : military mobilization and the state, 1861-1865 / Mark R. Wilson.

"This account of the politics and economics of the giant military supply project in the North reconstructs an important but little known part of Civil War history. Drawing on new and extensive research in army and business archives, Mark R. Wilson offers a fresh view of the wartime North and th...

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Main Author: Wilson, Mark (Mark R.), 1970-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Series:Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology (Unnumbered)
Subjects:
United States. > Army > Mobilization > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States. > Army
1800-1899
Contracting out > United States > History > 19th century.
HISTORY.
Armed Forces > Mobilization
Contracting out
Economics
Amerikaanse burgeroorlog.
Economische aspecten.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Economic aspects.
United States
History
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Table of 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.

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