Matokeo ya Utafutaji
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Destructive Creation: American Business and the Winning of World War II
During World War II, the United States helped vanquish the Axis powers by converting its enormous economic capacities into military might. Producing nearly two-thirds of all the munitions used by Allied forces, American industry became what President Franklin D. Roosevelt called "the arsenal of demo... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2016 -
The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861–1865 (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)
This wide-ranging, original account of the politics and economics of the giant military supply project in the North reconstructs an important but little-known part of Civil War history. Drawing on new and extensive research in army and business archives, Mark R. Wilson offers a fresh view of the war... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2006 -
The Military and the Market (American Business, Politics, and Society)
Throughout its history, the U.S. military has worked in close connection to market-based institutions and structures. It has run systems of free and unfree labor, taken over private sector firms, and both spurred and snuffed out economic development. It has created new markets—for consumer products,... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2022 -
At War: The Military and American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (War Culture)
by Susan L. Carruthers • Katherine Ellison • Scott Laderman • Christine Knauer • William Watson • John M. Kinder • Jennifer Mittelstadt • David Kieran • Jana K. Lipman • Edwin A. Martini • Mark R. Wilson • Christopher Hamner • Sahr Conway-Lanz • Stefan Aune • Nick Witham • Wilbur J. Scott • Kara Dixon Vuic • Richard P. Tucker • Bonnie M. Miller • Professor G. Kurt PiehlerThe country’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, its interventions around the world, and its global military presence make war, the military, and militarism defining features of contemporary American life. The armed services and the wars they fight shape all aspects of life—from the formation of racial a... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2018 -
Horror for good: a charitable anthology
Horror For Good: A Charitable Anthology is a non-themed anthology of thirty two horror stories, featuring some of the biggest names in the horror genre, including Joe R. Lansdale, Ramsey Campbell, Jack Ketchum, F. Paul Wilson, Ray Garton and Joe McKinney.... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2012