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Engineering victory : how technology won the Civil War
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- ISBN: 9781421419374
- ISBN: 9781421419381
- ISBN: 1421419378
- ISBN: 1421419386
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Physical Description:
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xiv, 369 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Publisher: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-358) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: masters and mechanics -- Part I. The education and management gap: schooling, business, and culture in mid-nineteenth century America -- Common school reform and science education -- Mechanics' institutes and agricultural fairs: transmitting knowledge and information in antebellum America -- Building railroads: the early development of the modern management system -- Part II. Skills go to war -- Wanted: volunteer engineers -- Early successes and failures: Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, Island No. 10, and Middle Tennessee -- McClellan tests his engineers: the Peninsula Campaign, 1862 -- Thomas Scott, Daniel McCallum, Herman Haupt, and the birth of the United States Military Railroad -- Summer-Fall 1862: Maryland, Kentucky, and Tennessee -- Part III. Applied engineering -- Vicksburg -- Gettysburg -- Chattanooga -- The Red River and Petersburg -- Atlanta and the Carolina Campaign -- Conclusion: know-how triumphant. |
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| Subject: | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Technology United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Lansdowne Library | E 468.9 A67 2016 (Text) | 26040003191596 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |
