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Engineering Victory : How Technology Won the Civil War /
Engineering Victory brings a fresh approach to the question of why the North prevailed in the Civil War. Historian Thomas F. Army, Jr., identifies strength in engineering--not superior military strategy or industrial advantage--as the critical determining factor in the war's outcome. Army finds...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.