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List of Figures and Tables ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
"I Have Shouldered This Fleet": Gastavus Fox and "Monitor Mania" 9
Forging the Fleet: Alban C. Stimers and the Passaic Project 25
The Navy Looks West 45
Mobilization on the Ohio River 69
Miserable Failures: Combat Lessons and Political Engineering 84
A Million of Dollars: The Price of "Continuous Improvement" 101
Progress Retarded: The Harbor and River Monitors, 1863-1864 122
The Sudden Destruction of Bright Hopes: The Downfall of the General Inspector 147
Good for Fifty Years: Winding Down the Mobilization 170
Additions, Alterations, and Improvements: Reversing Technological Momentum 198
Tabular Data for Passaic- and Tippecanoe-Class Monitors 211
Abbreviations 213
Notes 215
Essay on Sources 269
Index 277
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Beverly Valk
reviewed Civil War Ironclads: The U. S. Navy and Industrial Mobilization on February 04, 2020
Civil War Ironclads: The U. S. Navy and Industrial Mobilization
This was a quite comprehensive survey of the American fascination with technological innovation. Covering structures like bridges and skyscrapers, and forms of power including steam, electricity and nuclear reactions, the author makes a a consistent case, and to some degree makes observations about the American character. It's unfortunate that the book was published just as the next wave of technology (the Internet) was becoming popular, because it would have been interesting to see how or whether something as comparatively abstract as information and data would fit with the definition of sublime, or perhaps be, in some way, the ultimate example of the technological sublime (transcending the individual.)
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