The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861-1865

by Mark R. Wilson

Book Overview

This wide-ranging, original account of the politics and economics of the giant military supply project in the North reconstructs an important but little-known part of Civil War history. Drawing on new and extensive research in army and business archives, Mark R. Wilson offers a fresh view of the wartime North and the ways in which its economy worked when the Lincoln administration, with unprecedented military effort, moved to suppress the rebellion...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080189820X
• ISBN13: 9780801898204
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher