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

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Bibliographic Details
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 > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Economic aspects.
Contracting out > United States > History > 19th century.
Electronic books.
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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.