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Technological change and the United States Navy, 1865-1945
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Title
Technological change and the United States Navy, 1865-1945 [electronic resource] / William M. McBride.
ISBN
0801872855
9780801872853
0801864860 (acid-free paper)
0801898188
9780801898181
Published
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2000. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 336 p. :) ill. ;
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
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Description based on print version record.
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Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Archival Complete Foundation Collection
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Books Archival Subscription Plan
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 History Foundation Collection
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 13, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-318) and index.
Contents
The postbellum naval profession : from discord to amalgamation
Competing for control : line officers, engineers, and the technological exemplar of the battleship paradigm
Refining the technological ideal : the Simsian uproar, engineer bashing, and the all-big-gun battleship
Technological trajectory : geostrategic design criteria, turboelectric propulsion, and naval-industrial relations
Anomalous technologies of the great war : airplanes, submarines, and the professional status quo
Controlling aviation after the World War : the 1924 special board and the technological ceiling for aviation
Disarmament, depression, and politics : technological momentum and the unstable dynamics of the HooverRoosevelt years
War and a shifting technological paradigm : fast task forces and "three-plane" warfare
Castles of steel : technological change and the modern navy.
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