Engineering Security: The Corps of Engineers and Third System Defense Policy, 1815-1861

ISBN-13: 9780817359904 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 278 str.

Mark A. Smith

Spis treści

• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. The Early National Context: American Coastal Defense to 1815
• 2. Engineering Policy, 1816–1821
• 3. The Politics of Engineering, 1820–1828
• 4. National Defense in the Jacksonian Era, 1828–1849
• 5. Expertise and the Rise of Responsibility, 1826–1860
• 6. Challenge and Crisis, 1850–1861
• 7. Constructing Security, 1845–1860
• 8. Engineering Gulf Coast Society, 1845–1860
• 9. Evaluation: Third System Policy in the American Civil War
• 10. Conclusions
• Frequently Used Abbreviations
• Notes
• Bibliographic Essay
• Index