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American military technology : the life story of a technology
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American military technology : the life story of a technology

Author: Barton C Hacker; Margaret Vining
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.
Series: Greenwood technographies
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Barton C Hacker; Margaret Vining
ISBN: 0313333084 9780313333088
OCLC Number: 62342068
Description: xxiii, 205 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Before industrialization : through the early nineteenth century -- Transition to the industrial age : mid-nineteenth century -- The military-technological revolution : late nineteenth century -- The naval-technological revolution and the rise of navalism : late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- The catastrophe of industrial war : 1914-1918 -- From war to war, 1919-1941 -- The climax of mechanization : 1942-1945 -- Military research institutionalized : 1945-1951 -- Strategic technologies ascendant : 1952-1965 -- The impact of Vietnam : 1965-1980 -- A new era in warfare? : 1980-2000.
Series Title: Greenwood technographies
Responsibility: Barton C. Hacker, with the assistance of Margaret Vining.
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