Civil War Ironclads - The U.s. Navy and Industrial Mobilization

Informationen zum Autor After retiring from the navy in 1994 as a surface warfare officer, William H. Roberts earned his Ph.D. in history at the Ohio State University in Columbus. He is the author of USS New Ironsides in the Civil War and "Now for the Contest" Coastal and Oceanic Naval Operations in the Civil War. Klappentext In Civil War Ironclads , the first comprehensive study of one of the most ambitious programs in the history of naval shipbuilding, William H. Roberts explores the enormous task of constructing the U.S. Navy's new fleet of ironclads. This process involved establishing a "project office" that was virtually independent of the existing administrative system, broadening the naval industrial base, granting shipbuilding contracts to inland firms--all under the intense pressure of a wartime economy. Zusammenfassung Contrary to widespread belief! Roberts concludes! the ironclad program set Navy shipbuilding back a generation.

Product details

• Authors: William H Roberts, William H. Roberts
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.12.2007
• EAN: 9780801887512
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8751-2
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology; Johns Hopkins Studies in the H; Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology; Johns Hopkins Studies in the H
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; Civil War, HISTORY / Military / Naval, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, TRANSPORTATION / Ships & Shipbuilding / History, History of engineering and technology, History of engineering & technology, History of the Americas, Naval forces and warfare, Ships and boats: general interest