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Civil War Barons: The Tycoons, Entrepreneurs, Inventors, and Visionaries Who Forged Victory and Shaped a Nation

byJeffry Wert

Jeffry Wert profiles the entrepreneurs, industrialists, inventors, financiers, and organizers whose factories, railroads, communications, weapons, and logistics helped the Union win the Civil War. These “Civil War barons” expanded production at extraordinary speed, profiting from government contracts while building enterprises that would shape the postwar economy. The book balances technological achievement with political influence, labor conflict, corruption, and unequal reward. Wert shows that military victory depended on industrial systems as well as battlefield leadership, and that the war accelerated the rise of corporate capitalism and a new class of national business power.

Publisher

Da Capo Press

Publication date

2018

Format

Print edition

Pages

276

ISBN

9780306825125