American military technology : the life story of a technology
War is part of American history. This book examines how military technology both molded and reflected interactions between the American military and other American institutions. It also aims to provide a springboard for understanding the complex relationship of science, technology, and war in American history
Print Book, English, 2007
Johns Hopkins pbk. ed View all formats and editions
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2007
xxi, 205 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780801887727, 0801887720
261474098
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
"First published in 2006 by Greenwood Press"--Title page verso