Research Catalog

Title

Iron coffin : war, technology, and experience aboard the USS Monitor / David A. Mindell.

Author

Mindell, David A.

Publication

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.

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Details

Description

xiv, 191 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Describes the warship, the USS Monitor, discussing the battle against the CSS Virginia during the Civil War, how it affected warfare and ship construction, its portrayal in popular media, and sailors' accounts of life inside the vessel.

Series Statement

Johns Hopkins introductory studies in the history of technology

Uniform Title

Johns Hopkins introductory studies in the history of technology.

Alternative Title

War, technology, and experience aboard the USS Monitor

Subject

• Monitor (Ironclad)
• United States. Navy > History > Civil War, 1861-1865
• United States. Navy
• United States > Naval operations > Civil War, 1861-1865

Note

• Originally published: War, technology, and experience aboard the USS Monitor / David A. Mindell. 2000.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

List of Illustrations -- Preface 2012 -- Preface to the First Edition -- Introduction A Strange Sort of Warfare -- Chapter 1. Revising the Revolution, 1815-1861 -- Chapter 2. Building a Ship, Speaking Success -- Chapter 3. William Keeler's Epistolary Monitor -- Chapter 4. Life in the Artificial World -- Chapter 5. The Battle of Hampton Roads -- Chapter 6. Iron Ship in a Glass Case, April-September 1862 -- Chapter 7. Utilitarians View the Monitor's Fight, 1862-1865 -- Chapter 8. Melville and the Mechanic's War -- Conclusion Mechanical Faces of Battle -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliographical Essay -- Index.

ISBN

• 9781421405209 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1421405202 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781421406053 (electronic)
• 1421406055 (electronic)

LCCN

^^2011027683

OCLC

733755852

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library