| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.1

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Canada and the United States

Kurt Hackemer. The U.S. Navy and the Origins of the Military-Industrial Complex, 1847–1883. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press. 2001. Pp. x, 181. $45.00.

Sociologist C. Wright Mills first suggested the concept of an economic-military alliance in his The Power Elite (1956). A few years later, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned that a military-industrial complex (MIC) might pose a danger to American society and politics. The idea of an MIC became the central assumption during the 1960s for Samuel P. Huntington, Fred J. Cook, Walter Millis, and other scholars of American military history, civil-military relations, and the political economy of warfare. Revisionist historians of the 1970s adopted the MIC as the central institution to explain the intimate influence of great defense industries in advancing an imperialistic foreign policy. They found the origin of the so-called military industrial complex in the late nineteenth century with the growth of large-scale industry. Historian Benjamin Franklin Cooling revealed in Gray Steel and Blue Water Navy: The Formative Years of America's Military-Industrial Complex, 1881–1917 (1979) the intimate partnership between the steel industry and the U.S. Navy in promoting a deep-water fleet, domestic steel industry, and expansionist foreign policy. . . .

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