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Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on February 8, 2007
Enterprise and Society 2007 8(1):202-204; doi:10.1093/es/khm014
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Copyright © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference.

Mark R. Wilson. The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861–1865

Mark R. Wilson. The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861–1865. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xii + 306 pp. ISBN 0-8018-8348-2, $45.00 (cloth)

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In the otherwise voluminous literature of the Civil War, books on the logistics of military supply are comparatively rare. Historians have largely overlooked the administrative arrangements necessary to outfit, feed, house, transport, supply, and communicate with the enormous Civil War armies, emphasizing instead the Union's superior resources, such as railroad mileage, or linking the logistics of supply to patronage, profiteering, and political corruption. Mark R. Wilson's excellent The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Ann N. Greene

University of Pennsylvania


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