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The USS "Monitor" battled the CSS "Virginia" at Hampton Roads in April, 1862. This text explores how mariners - fighting "blindly" beneath the waterline - lived and coped with the metal monster they called "the iron coffin". Combining technical, personal, administrative and literay analysis, David Mindell examines the experience of the men aboard the "Monitor" and their reactions to the thrills and dangers that accompanied the new machine. The invention surrounded men with iron and threatened their heroism, their self-image as warriors, even their lives. Mindell also examines responses to this strange new warship by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, who prophetically saw in the Civil War a portent of the mechanized warfare of the future. The story of the "Monitor" shows how technology changes not only the tools but also the very experience of combat, generating effects that are still felt in the modern-day era of "smart bombs" and "push-button wars".

About the Author :
David A. Mindell is Dibner Associate Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT. He has degrees in Electrical Engineering and Literature from Yale University and a Ph.D. in the History of Technology from MIT. His research interests include the history of military technology, the history of electronics and computing, and archaeology in the deep ocean. He is currently working on a history of feedback, control, and computing in the twentieth century, and on locating and imaging ancient shipwrecks and settlements in the deep regions of the Black Sea.

Review :
"An original and stimulating study that raises serious questions about relations between warriors and their death-dealing machinery." -- William J. Astore, War, Literature and the Arts "Mindell asserts that Monitor's mythical qualities were at least as important as her technological ones... Mindell's scholarly, yet entertaining and very readable book is an excellent and important work that should serve as a model for similar historical studies." -- John Broadwater, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology "Mindell provides an intriguing and richly textured analysis that makes effective use of contemporary diaries and other reports. These accounts help Mindell convey the flavor of life aboard the Monitor with candor and insight." -- John F. Guilmartin Jr., Journal of Southern History "Mindell's thought-provoking assessments and conclusions contribute to the understanding of how institutions and societies perceive and react to new technologies." -- Choice "This book offers important new insights into the Monitor as a national icon, the ironclad's association with the modern U.S. Navy, and the evolving role of innovation and heroism in twenty-first-century warfare." -- Benjamin H. Trask, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography "Well researched and wide in its scope, this work raises issues that transcend the Civil War and resonate in our own time." -- William M. Fowler, Jr., American Historical Review "An original and stimulating study that raises serious questions about relations between warriors and their death-dealing machinery." -- William J. Astore, War, Literature and the Arts "Mindell asserts that Monitor's mythical qualities were at least as important as her technological ones... Mindell's scholarly, yet entertaining and very readable book is an excellent and important work that should serve as a model for similar historical studies." -- John Broadwater, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology "Mindell provides an intriguing and richly textured analysis that makes effective use of contemporary diaries and other reports. These accounts help Mindell convey the flavor of life aboard the Monitor with candor and insight." -- John F. Guilmartin Jr., Journal of Southern History "Mindell's thought-provoking assessments and conclusions contribute to the understanding of how institutions and societies perceive and react to new technologies." -- Choice "This book offers important new insights into the Monitor as a national icon, the ironclad's association with the modern U.S. Navy, and the evolving role of innovation and heroism in twenty-first-century warfare." -- Benjamin H. Trask, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography "Well researched and wide in its scope, this work raises issues that transcend the Civil War and resonate in our own time." -- William M. Fowler, Jr., American Historical Review


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780801862496
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0801862493
  • Publisher Date: 24 Mar 2000
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 430 gr


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