Civil War Ironclads: The U.S. Navy and Industrial Mobilization

by William H. Roberts

Book Overview

Honorable Mention, Science and Technology category, John Lyman Book Awards, North American Society for Oceanic History

Civil War Ironclads supplies the first comprehensive study of one of the most ambitious programs in the history of naval shipbuilding. In constructing its new fleet of ironclads, William H. Roberts explains, the U.S. Navy faced the enormous engineering challenges of a largely experimental technology. In addition, it...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801887518
• ISBN13: 9780801887512
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher