The business of civil war
Subtitle: military mobilization and the state, 1861-1865
By: Mark Wilson.
Series: Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology; Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology (Unnumbered)
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: United States. Army -- Mobilization -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.; Contracting out -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Economic aspects.
Description: "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 the ways in which its economy worked when the Lincoln administration, with unprecedented military effort, moved to suppress the rebellion. Students of the American Civil War will welcome this fresh study of military-industrial production and procurement on the home front - long an obscure topic"--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The rise and fall of a federal supply system; title: The formation of a national bureaucracy; title: The making of a mixed military economy; title: The trouble with contracting; title: The middleman on trial; title: The unacknowledged militarization of America; title: Appendix A : note on the value of a dollar during the Civil War era; title: Appendix B : leading northern military contractors in selected industries; title: Appendix C : note on data collection and record linkages.