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The Business Of War: Military Mobilization And The State, 1861-1865, Harold S. Wilson
The Business Of War: Military Mobilization And The State, 1861-1865, Harold S. Wilson
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This is essentially an institutional study of the Union Quartermaster Department in the American Civil War, and its central thesis is that “modern American business and government were shaped directly and indirectly by a military model of administration that had been on display in 1861–1865” (p. 4).