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Astride Two Worlds: Technology and the American Civil War

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By the center of the nineteenth century, industrialization and military-technological innovation were starting to alter drastically the nature and conditions of warfare as it had been conducted for centuries. Occurring in the middle of these far-reaching changes, the American Civil War can justly be labeled both the last great preindustrial war and the primary major war of the economic age. Industrial capacity attained new levels of military significance as transportation improved, but on this, as in many other respects, the Civil War used to be distinctly transitional. Smoothbore artillery still dominated the battlefield, horse-drawn wagons and pack mules still carried the primary logistic burden, seamstresses still outnumbered sewing-machine operators. Astride Two Worlds addresses the more than a few causes and consequences of technological change for the course and outcome of the American Civil War.

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