TY - BOOK AU - Wilson,Mark ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - The business of civil war: military mobilization and the state, 1861-1865 T2 - Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology AV - E491 .W76 2006 U1 - 973.7/1 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Baltimore PB - Johns Hopkins University Press KW - United States KW - Army KW - Mobilization KW - History KW - Civil War, 1861-1865 KW - Contracting out KW - 19th century KW - Economic aspects KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-293) and index; The rise and fall of a federal supply system -- The formation of a national bureaucracy -- The making of a mixed military economy -- The trouble with contracting -- The middleman on trial -- The unacknowledged militarization of America -- Appendix A : note on the value of a dollar during the Civil War era -- Appendix B : leading northern military contractors in selected industries -- Appendix C : note on data collection and record linkages; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3318458 ER -