| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.2

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The U.S. Navy and the Origins of the Military-Industrial Complex, 1847–1883. By Kurt Hackemer. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2001. xii, 181 pp. $45.00, ISBN 1-55750-333-8.)

In this well-researched and well-documented work, Kurt Hackemer argues that the origin of the naval-industrial relationship actually goes back to a much earlier date than suggested in the classic work on the topic, B. Franklin Cooling's Gray Steel and Blue Water Navy: The Formative Years of America's Military-Industrial Complex, 1881–1917 (1979). "The special relationship that developed between the government and the nation's larger steel companies [in the 1880s] did not grow out of thin air," Hackemer logically contends. He posits that through the period of his work the introduction of steam engines in the late 1840s and early 1850s and of the ironclad warship under the pressures of the Civil War represented technologies that, like the construction of steel warships in the 1880s, "exceeded the capabilities of [the navy's] physical plant" and thus required the assistance of civilian industrial organizations. . . .

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