Mobilizing for Modern War The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1865-1919 (Hardcover)

From the Publisher: In this second volume of an extraordinary five-volume study on the political economy of American warfare, Paul A.C. Koistinen reveals how economic mobilization for defense and war has evolved; and how it is shaped at the national level by the interaction of political, economic, and military institutions and by increasingly powerful and expensive weaponry.The second volume of a proposed five-volume work that is intended to offer a comprehensive, schematic, and interdisciplinary study of the economics of America's wars from the colonial period to the present. Discussion of the period from 1865 through the Progressive Era elucidates the major systems involved in the economic, political, and military developments of the time. The focus in the remainder of the book shifts to the preparation and economic mobilization for war. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.