ACLS Humanities E-Book: Military enterprise and technological change: perspectives on the American experience

Military enterprise and technological change: perspectives on the American experience

Smith, Merritt Roe, 1940-

Year: c1985.

Publisher: MIT Press.

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Frontmatter

Preface

Introduction

1. Army Ordnance and the "American System" of Manufacturing, 1815-1861

2. The Corps of Engineers and the Rise of Modern Management, 1827-1856

3. The Navy Adopts the Radio

4. Ford Eagle Boats and Mass Production during World War I

5. Adjusting to Military Life: The Social Sciences Go to War, 1941-1950

6. Military Needs, Commercial Realities, and the Development of the Transistor, 1948-1958

7. U.S. Navy research and Development since World War II

8. Command Performance: A Perspective on Military Enterprise and Technological Change

9. Technology and War: A Bibliographic Essay

Contributors

Index

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Title:

Military enterprise and technological change : perspectives on the American experience edited by Merritt Roe Smith.

Author:

Smith, Merritt Roe, 1940-

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Military enterprise and technological change : perspectives on the American experience edited by Merritt Roe Smith.
Smith, Merritt Roe, 1940-
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c1985.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.01154

Subject Headings:

• Defense industries -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• Defense industries -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Technology -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Technology -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• United States. -- Armed Forces -- History -- 19th century
• United States. -- Armed Forces -- History -- 20th century

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