Civil War Ironclads: The U.S. Navy and Industrial Mobilization

Honorable Mention, Science and Technology category, John Lyman Book Awards, North American Society for Oceanic History

Civil War Ironclads supplies the first comprehensive study of one of the most ambitious programs in the history of naval shipbuilding. In constructing its new fleet of ironclads, William H. Roberts explains, the U.S. Navy faced the enormous engineering challenges of a largely experimental technology. In addition, it had to manage a ship acquisition program of unprecedented s...