Author: Grosvenor B 1882- Clarkson
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781019700433
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book offers a unique perspective on the strategy of the United States during World War I and the impact it had on industrial America. With detailed analysis of major battles and wartime policies, the author provides a wealth of information and insights into a crucial period of American history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Industrial America in the World War [microform]; the Strategy Behind the Line, 1917-1918
Author: Grosvenor B 1882- Clarkson
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781019700433
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book offers a unique perspective on the strategy of the United States during World War I and the impact it had on industrial America. With detailed analysis of major battles and wartime policies, the author provides a wealth of information and insights into a crucial period of American history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781019700433
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book offers a unique perspective on the strategy of the United States during World War I and the impact it had on industrial America. With detailed analysis of major battles and wartime policies, the author provides a wealth of information and insights into a crucial period of American history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Industrial America in the World War
Author: Grosvenor B. Clarkson
Publisher: Jerome s Ozer Pub
ISBN: 9780891980971
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
Publisher: Jerome s Ozer Pub
ISBN: 9780891980971
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
Building American Submarines, 1914-1940
Author: Gary E. Weir
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
A Most Damnable Invention
Author: Stephen R. Bown
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466817054
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel's discovery of dynamite made possible the famous industrial megaprojects that transformed the countryside and defined the era, including the St. Gothard rail tunnel through the Alps, the clearing of New York harbor, the Panama Canal, and countless others. Dynamite also caused terrible injuries and great loss of life, and, in some cases, incalculable and irreparable environmental damage. Nobel was one of the richest men in a society rapidly transforming under the power of his invention, but with a troubled conscience, he left his estate to the establishment of the world-famous prizes that bear his name. As the use of explosives soared and growing populations consumed more food, nations scrambled for the scarce yet vital organic ingredient needed for both. The quest for nitrates takes us from the rural stables and privies of preindustrial Europe to the monopoly trading plantations in India and to the Atacama Desert in South America. Nitrates were as valuable in the nineteenth century as oil is in the twenty-first and were the cause of similar international jockeying and power politics. The "nitrogen problem" of creating inorganic nitrates was solved by an enigmatic German scientist named Fritz Haber. His breakthrough not only prolonged the First World War but became the foundation of the green revolution and the tripling of world population since then. Haber is also known as the "father of gas warfare" for his work on poison gas. When he was awarded a Nobel Prize for his work in chemistry, it sparked international outrage and condemnation. A Most Damnable Invention is a human tale of scientific obsession, shadowy immorality, and historical irony, and a testament to the capacity for human ingenuity during times of war.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466817054
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel's discovery of dynamite made possible the famous industrial megaprojects that transformed the countryside and defined the era, including the St. Gothard rail tunnel through the Alps, the clearing of New York harbor, the Panama Canal, and countless others. Dynamite also caused terrible injuries and great loss of life, and, in some cases, incalculable and irreparable environmental damage. Nobel was one of the richest men in a society rapidly transforming under the power of his invention, but with a troubled conscience, he left his estate to the establishment of the world-famous prizes that bear his name. As the use of explosives soared and growing populations consumed more food, nations scrambled for the scarce yet vital organic ingredient needed for both. The quest for nitrates takes us from the rural stables and privies of preindustrial Europe to the monopoly trading plantations in India and to the Atacama Desert in South America. Nitrates were as valuable in the nineteenth century as oil is in the twenty-first and were the cause of similar international jockeying and power politics. The "nitrogen problem" of creating inorganic nitrates was solved by an enigmatic German scientist named Fritz Haber. His breakthrough not only prolonged the First World War but became the foundation of the green revolution and the tripling of world population since then. Haber is also known as the "father of gas warfare" for his work on poison gas. When he was awarded a Nobel Prize for his work in chemistry, it sparked international outrage and condemnation. A Most Damnable Invention is a human tale of scientific obsession, shadowy immorality, and historical irony, and a testament to the capacity for human ingenuity during times of war.
Minutes of the Meetings of the Council of National Defense, 1916-1921
Author: United States. National Archives and Records Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Design for total war
Author: Berenice Anita Carroll
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111359581
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
No detailed description available for "Design for total war".
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111359581
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
No detailed description available for "Design for total war".
Industrial America in the World War
Author: Grosvenor B. Clarkson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial mobilization
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial mobilization
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
The US Air Service in World War 1
The Purpose of the First World War
Author: Holger Afflerbach
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110435993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Nearly fourteen million people died during the First World War. But why, and for what reason? Already many contemporaries saw the Great War as a "pointless carnage" (Pope Benedict XV, 1917). Was there a point, at least in the eyes of the political and military decision makers? How did they justify the losses, and why did they not try to end the war earlier? In this volume twelve international specialists analyses and compares the hopes and expectations of the political and military leaders of the main belligerent countries and of their respective societies. It shows that the war aims adopted during the First World War were not, for the most part, the cause of the conflict, but a reaction to it, an attempt to give the tragedy a purpose - even if the consequence was to oblige the belligerents to go on fighting until victory. The volume tries to explain why - and for what - the contemporaries thought that they had to fight the Great War.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110435993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Nearly fourteen million people died during the First World War. But why, and for what reason? Already many contemporaries saw the Great War as a "pointless carnage" (Pope Benedict XV, 1917). Was there a point, at least in the eyes of the political and military decision makers? How did they justify the losses, and why did they not try to end the war earlier? In this volume twelve international specialists analyses and compares the hopes and expectations of the political and military leaders of the main belligerent countries and of their respective societies. It shows that the war aims adopted during the First World War were not, for the most part, the cause of the conflict, but a reaction to it, an attempt to give the tragedy a purpose - even if the consequence was to oblige the belligerents to go on fighting until victory. The volume tries to explain why - and for what - the contemporaries thought that they had to fight the Great War.