| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 336 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology
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Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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 Hoover-Roosevelt years -- War and a shifting technological paradigm : fast task forces and "three-plane" warfare -- Castles of steel : technological change and the modern navy. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States. Navy -- Officers -- Attitudes.
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United States. Navy. |
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United States. Navy -- Civilian employees -- Attitudes.
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United States. Navy -- Officers -- Civilian employees -- Attitudes. |
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Naval art and science -- Technological innovations -- United States.
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Naval art and science -- Technological innovations. |
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United States. |
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Naval art and science. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: McBride, William M. Technological change and the United States Navy, 1865-1945. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2000 0801864860 (DLC) 00009313 (OCoLC)43977828 |
| ISBN |
0801872855 (electronic book) |
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9780801872853 (electronic book) |
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9780801864865 (acid-free paper) |
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0801864860 (acid-free paper) |
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9780801898181 (print) |
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0801898188 (print) |
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