Mobilizing for Modern War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1865-1919

In this volume, Paul Koistinen examines war planning and mobilizing in an era of rapid industrialization and reveals how economic mobilization for defense and war is shaped at the national level by the interaction of political, economic, and military institutions and by increasingly powerful and expensive weaponry. The book covers the Gilded Age and Progressive Era through the Spanish-American War and World War I.