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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Mindell, David A. War, technology, and experience aboard the USS Monitor. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000 (OCoLC)606270211 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
David A Mindell |
ISBN: | 0801862493 9780801862496 0801862507 9780801862502 |
OCLC Number: | 41711975 |
Description: | x, 187 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: A Strange Sort of Warfare -- Revising the Revolution, 1815-1861 -- Building a Ship, Speaking Success -- William Keeler's Epistolary Monitor -- Life in the Artificial World -- The Battle of Hampton Roads -- Iron Ship in a Glass Case, April-September 1862 -- Utilitarians View the Monitor's Fight, 1862-1865 -- Melville and the Mechanic's War -- Conclusion: Mechanical Faces of Battle. |
Responsibility: | David A. Mindell. |
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An original and stimulating study that raises serious questions about relations between warriors and their death-dealing machinery. -- William J. Astore War, Literature and the Arts Well researched and wide in its scope, this work raises issues that transcend the Civil War and resonate in our own time. -- William M. Fowler, Jr. American Historical Review This book offers important new insights into the Monitor as a national icon, the ironclad's association with the modern U.S. Navy, and the evolving role of innovation and heroism in twenty-first-century warfare. -- Benjamin H. Trask Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Mindell's thought-provoking assessments and conclusions contribute to the understanding of how institutions and societies perceive and react to new technologies. Choice Mindell asserts that Monitor's mythical qualities were at least as important as her technological ones... Mindell's scholarly, yet entertaining and very readable book is an excellent and important work that should serve as a model for similar historical studies. -- John Broadwater International Journal of Nautical Archaeology Mindell provides an intriguing and richly textured analysis that makes effective use of contemporary diaries and other reports. These accounts help Mindell convey the flavor of life aboard the Monitor with candor and insight. -- John F. Guilmartin Jr. Journal of Southern History 2003 Read more...


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- Monitor (Ironclad)
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- United States. -- Navy -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
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