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The Business of Civil War - Military Mobilization and the State, 1861-1865 (Paperback)
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The Business of Civil War - Military Mobilization and the State, 1861-1865 (Paperback)
Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
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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.
This task of equipping and sustaining Union forces fell to career
army procurement officers. Largely free from political partisanship
or any formal free-market ideology, they created a mixed military
economy with a complex contracting system that they pieced together
to meet the experience of civil war. Wilson argues that the North
owed its victory to these professional military men and their
finely tuned relationships with contractors, public officials, and
war workers. Wilson also examines the obstacles military
bureaucrats faced, many of which illuminated basic problems of
modern political economy: the balance between efficiency and
equity, the promotion of competition, and the protection of
workers' welfare. The struggle over these problems determined the
flow of hundreds of millions of dollars; it also redirected
American political and economic development by forcing citizens to
grapple with difficult questions about the proper relationships
among government, business, and labor. Students of the American
Civil War will welcome this fresh study of military-industrial
production and procurement on the home front-long an obscure topic.
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