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War, technology, and experience aboard the USS Monitor

Title
War, technology, and experience aboard the USS Monitor / David A. Mindell.
Author
Mindell, David A.
Publication
Baltimore, Md : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

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Description
x, 187 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Monitor (Ironclad)
  • United States. Navy > History > Civil War, 1861-1865
  • United States > Naval operations. > Civil War, 1861-1865
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: A Strange Sort of Warfare -- Ch. 1. Revising the Revolution, 1815-1861 -- Ch. 2. Building a Ship, Speaking Success -- Ch. 3. William Keeler's Epistolary Monitor -- Ch. 4. Life in the Artificial World -- Ch. 5. The Battle of Hampton Roads -- Ch. 6. Iron Ship in a Glass Case, April-September 1862 -- Ch. 7. Utilitarians View the Monitor's Fight, 1862-1865 -- Ch. 8. Melville and the Mechanic's War -- Conclusion: Mechanical Faces of Battle.
ISBN
  • 0801862493 (alk. paper)
  • 0801862507 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
99038344
OCLC
  • 41711975
  • ocm41711975
  • SCSB-3842078
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries