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

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Superior document:Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology
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Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Series:Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology (Unnumbered)
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Physical Description:xii, 306 p. :; ill., maps.
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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.